S11E1: The Antichrist
Heaven Bent
Heaven Bent Media
4.3 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in the church, Tara Jean was instilled with a spirit of fear that has stayed with her decades after she stopped calling herself a believer. On this season, she'll lean on expert guests to help demystify some of these specific fears, like exorcisms, the female body, and on this episide the antichrist. Her guest is reknowned scholar Bernard McGinn, author of "Antichrist: 2 Thousands Years of the Human Fascination With Evil."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Heaven Bent. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Tara Jean Stevens. |
| 0:12.9 | Season 11. |
| 0:14.9 | The Spirit of Fear. |
| 0:19.1 | Over the next several episodes, I plan to demystify the parts of my religious upbringing |
| 0:25.6 | that have haunted me long after I left the church. |
| 0:30.6 | My church was the Prince Rupert Pentecostal Tabernacle, |
| 0:35.6 | and Prince Rupert is a remote community on the northern |
| 0:40.0 | coast of British Columbia. It's the gloomiest city in Canada, and it's where I came to truly |
| 0:46.9 | believe in Satan and his evil intentions for my life. It's where I was taught that demons were constantly plotting new and |
| 0:57.0 | wily ways to deceive me and lead me astray from God. I haven't considered myself a Christian |
| 1:04.1 | since I was a teenager, and I'm 46 now, so it's been a while since I was speaking in tongues |
| 1:11.9 | and laying my hands on people to pray for a healing. |
| 1:16.2 | Three decades since I thank God for everything good in my life |
| 1:21.1 | and thought that maybe one day I'd become a televangelist. |
| 1:28.3 | But here I am, still shook by the warnings I was given about something called the |
| 1:35.3 | witching hour, shook by memories I have of an exorcism. |
| 1:40.3 | And on each of the following episodes, we'll tackle those subjects and more one at a time |
| 1:47.5 | with expert guests who can contextualize these fears using history, mythology, sociology, |
| 1:56.3 | science, I don't know, maybe even archaeology. |
| 2:00.7 | And with all that, let's get started. |
| 2:04.3 | Episode 1, The Antichrist. |
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