The End Times

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There really has been a quite a pronounced shift among evangelicals. Probably since the 70s or 80s to say, you know, to what's kind of known as post-millennialism. A lot of Pentecostals now will say that we've already been through the trials and tribulations. The Holocaust is often strongly pointed to us saying, yeah, that was one of the things on the path to the end times. So we do have to be prepared. It's a good kind of happen any moment, but we also need to build things up for it.

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.