Is There a Religion in North Korea?

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I think North Koreans are really into astrology, apparently. I severely doubt that they'd be underground churches or anything like, for example, they're in China. You know, you've seen those videos when Kim Jong-il died, right? The father of Kim Jong-un, right? And there's those videos of people just sobbing and weeping in the streets. It kind of carries on. They do use a lot of traditional cream, mythology and even Christianity.

Shermer and Hardy discuss: Hardy’s religious journey (raised Catholic, now agnostic) • origin of Pentecostalism and its biblical basis Pentecostalism in Korea North and South, and Israel • the structure of the Pentecostal church and how it differs from other churches • Seven Mountain Mandate • how religions grow • pentecostalism and politics • the psychology of the believer • dispensationalism and the Rapture • prophecy • glossolalia • snake handling • eschatology and end-times theology • sin and redemption • prostitution • Jordan Peterson and secular religion.

Elle Hardy is a journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported from the United States, the former USSR and North Korea, among a long list of places. Her work has appeared in GQ, Lonely Planet, Foreign Policy and Business Insider, and on ABC Australia. Her new book is Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World.