Steven Anderson (pastor)

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Steven Lee Anderson (born July 24, 1981) is an American preacher, filmmaker, 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 Roman 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 media personality 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. He and his supporters follow Young Earth creationism, though not the Ussher Chronology of 4004 B.C as the date for the creation of the world, but rather Anderson's own calculations, which place the creation of the earth at 4234 B.C Anderson has been banned from many countries, in succession: South Africa, the United Kingdom, Botswana...

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