What's the Difference?

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Pentecostalism was founded in Los Angeles by William J. Seymour, the son of freed slaves from Louisiana. The church for a long time went back down, down south and because of Jim Crow had to split along white and black lines. It's always had that real element of ecstatic Southern Star worship, as you'd call it. Rock and roll is basically secular pentacostalism. Anyone who came out of American music during the 1950s or 1960s were Pentecostals.

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.