This guy is scary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Anderson_(pastor)
Steven Lee Anderson (born July 24, 1981) is an American preacher and founder of the New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement. He is pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Anderson has shared views which criticize the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and other Christian denominations. He has advocated for the death penalty for homosexuals, and prayed for the deaths of former U.S. president Barack Obama and Caitlyn Jenner. He produced a documentary titled Marching to Zion in which he "championed a wide range of antisemitic stereotypes", according to Matthew H. Brittingham of Emory University.
The church has been described as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Anderson has advocated the death penalty for homosexuals.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as a proponent of anti-government views. Anderson operates a website titled True Sons of Liberty where he recommends elimination of the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Social Security Administration, and child protective services. He has appeared on InfoWars on numerous occasions, and the InfoWars store formerly offered for sale video productions by Anderson.
The Anti-Defamation League cited Anderson of "a history of antisemitism through his sermons and a series of YouTube videos." Emory University PhD candidate Matthew Brittingham suggested that Anderson is part of a connected but "diffuse group of theologically-focused, antisemitic Christian conspiracists who deny the Holocaust." In March 2015, Anderson released a documentary titled Marching to Zion, in which he argued that the anticipated Jewish messiah is the Antichrist and that the Talmud is blasphemous. The Pastor and conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs appears in the documentary. In May 2015, he posted a YouTube video, titled The Holocaust Hoax Exposed, promoting Holocaust denial. Anderson has also promoted conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the American government and media.
The church received national attention in the United States in August 2009, when Anderson delivered a sermon—entitled Why I Hate Barack Obama—in which he said he prayed for the death of the president.
In 2009, Anderson had a confrontation with United States Border Patrol agents at an interior checkpoint on Interstate 8, about 70 miles (110 km) east of Yuma, Arizona. He refused to move his car or roll down his windows, triggering a 90-minute standoff and the calling of Arizona Department of Public Safety officers to the scene. The confrontation ended when authorities broke Anderson's car windows, tased him, and forced him out of the vehicle. Anderson said they beat him while he was lying prone on the ground.
As of 2019, Anderson has been banned from more than 30 countries, including every English-speaking developed country other than the United States (his home country) and most English-speaking African countries. In September 2016, after he had announced his intention to travel to South Africa, Malusi Gigaba, the Minister for Home Affairs banned Anderson and his followers, citing the Constitution of South Africa and stating "I have identified Steven Anderson as an undesirable person to travel to South Africa”, even though Anderson said he had neither the authority or willingness to ban him from entering the country.
Anderson was also banned from entering the United Kingdom, leading him to change his travel route to Botswana by flying via Ethiopia. On September 20, 2016, he was banned and deported from Botswana.
In a YouTube video, Anderson mentioned a planned missionary trip to Malawi to set up a church there, but Malawian authorities subsequently made it known that he would not be welcome in the country and that he would also be banned from entering it in the future.
Anderson was denied entry to Canada on November 10, 2017.
On January 29, 2018, Anderson was banned from entering Jamaica.
Anderson was scheduled to preach in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on May 23, 2019. The Dutch government began looking into banning him from entering the Netherlands on April 24, leading to the factual ban from the Netherlands, and the rest of the European Union's Schengen area on May 1. According to the Dutch state secretary, there is "no space for discrimination or the encouragement of hate, intolerance or violence in a democratic rechtsstaat like ours".
The Republic of Ireland banned him on May 12, 2019. On July 23, 2019, Anderson was denied entry to Australia.[20] On August 7, 2019, Anderson was denied entry to New Zealand.
Anderson met his wife Zsuzsanna in Munich, Bavaria, when he presented her with the Gospel. Zsuzsanna was raised as a Catholic but she had become an agnostic as a young adult. She later converted to fundamentalist baptist Christianity, and they married in 2000; as of June 2023, the couple has twelve children, eight of whom are minors and homeschooled. Their four oldest children, who are now grown, have all accused them of domestic abuse
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