Is There a Future for Religion?

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I think religion will always be there. It's very clearly just a lot of organizing principles and a lot of codification of when you think about like, kosher laws and burial laws or things like that. And yeah, sometimes it is nicely reminded of the golden rule and that, yeah, maybe people should look after our neighbors and stuff like that. I suppose it's just some of the political aspects and those telling people what to do aspects of it that I'm not a huge fan of. ButYeah, if it, you know, gets people motivated to do stuff in their communities and spend more time around other people, I think that there's a good chance it might be doing some good

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.