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NIFB Pastor Steven Anderson’s Son Alleges Years Of Domestic Abuse + ‘My dad used the same electrical cord on her that he used on us’

Following our story of controversial NIFB pastor Steven Anderson’s son Isaac alleging years of violent abuse and beatings against them as children, including kicking and stomping on him, another of his sons, John, has come forward to corroborate the claims of vicious beatings, as well as allege years of domestic abuse towards his mother.

Anderson is the firebrand KJV-Onlyist from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ. He’s known for his rigorous Independent Fundamentalist Baptist theology, hatred of Calvinism, the infamous “pisseth on a wall” clip, and open glee at the thought of homosexuals being killed; at one point, he had the dubious distinction of being banned from 34 countries, including every English-speaking developed country.

You don’t get to say things like, “If I had a button right here on this pulpit, I could just push this button and every fag would just fall over dead. I would push it until it breaks,” without raising a few eyebrows.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Dead Domain, John Anderson, Steven’s second oldest son who has completely cut off from the family after reporting them to Child Protective Services, outlines life in the Anderson household, alleging further beatings, a hypocritical and violent mother, and instances of domestic abuse (the two former will be featured in an article tomorrow)

He begins by telling of having discovered his father would hit and whip his mother with a cord.

“I’m pretty sure all my siblings know about this, they weren’t very good at hiding it. My dad used the same electrical cord on her that he used on us. And it was like, they would be screaming, they would be fighting whatever. And then it’d be like, ‘kids go out in the backyard’ or ‘kids go to your room.’

And then you would hear the sound of BAM BAM beating sounds. My mom’s screaming. Um, there were times when I would see like the mark (because) the electrical cord, it would leave this “C-shaped” mark on you, like the tip. And it was scabbed up red and inflamed.

It was like, I don’t know, it was like a bruise, right? But then the ring where it was, was like this bloody mark in the shape of it, and I would see those on her. So it was very, very clear what was happening.

My parents kind of hid it from us. It was always like a thing like all of us knew about. And then finally, after like a year, I talked to my siblings, I talked to my brother, Isaac,… I was like, ‘dude, like, am I tripping, or is dad beating mom? ‘ He’s like, ‘no, like, yeah, I’ve known too. that’s what’s happening.'”

He continues:

“But I know there were a couple of outbursts where he would just like, bam, hit her in a fight…there were a couple instances that I know where he just like, hit her. It wasn’t like the scheduled, like, beatings, or it’s like a system (in the) same way it was with us.

So my mom decided that she was done with him. And she wanted to leave him and get sole custody of the kids. And she wanted to basically so she came out better on the divorce, because then she’d be single parenting 12 kids, she wanted to get him put away for domestic abuse so she could get the house while he’s off in prison.

…And I was like, ‘you were 10 times more abusive than dad ever was. So if you go press charges and I get called in as a witness, I’m not going to lie under oath and say he never did anything, but I’m also not going to sugar coat or hide anything you did as well.”

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DOZENS of Women Accuse Deceased Prosperity Preacher of Rape, Forced Abortions, CSA, and Torture

Dozens of women have come forward to make on-the-record accusations against the late TB Joshua, citing widespread rape, abuse and torture, according to a recently revealed BBC investigation. The investigation took more than two years to complete and was done in collaboration with the international media platform Open Democracy. It involved over 15 BBC journalists spanning multiple continents, gathering and archiving hundreds of hours of eyewitness testimony and other footage.

In 2021, Nigeria’s most controversial pastor, the “prophet” T. B. Joshua, passed away at the age of 57. Joshua was best known for being the head of the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) that claimed 15,000 members, along with owning and operating Emmanuel TV. His net worth was estimated to be between 15-25 million dollars and was considered one of the richest pastors in the world.

A false prophet and heretic, he routinely made prophecies that did not come true, including saying that Flight MH370 would be soon be discovered, that the 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram would quickly be released, and that the 2014 Ebola scare and COVID-19 would end mere months after they begun.

He was known far and wide for his claims he had healed thousands from HIV, cancer, blindness, deafness, and had even raised people from the dead on a regular basis. A prosperity preacher huckster in its purest form, he pushed the usual tropes like miraculous healing water, miracle bead, and even “holy stickers” that would cure every ailment and physical malady under the sun. To bolster his image, he claimed he had a divine birth, spending 15 months in the womb.

According to a new report by the BBC, dozens of his ex-congregants have come forward accusing the heretic of abusing them in his Lagos compound:

  • “Dozens of eyewitness accounts of physical violence or torture carried out by Joshua, including instances of child abuse and people being whipped and chained
  • Numerous women who say they were sexually assaulted by Joshua, with a number claiming they were repeatedly raped for years inside the compound
  • Multiple allegations of forced abortions inside the church following the alleged rapes by Joshua, including one woman who says she had five terminations
  • Multiple first-hand accounts detailing how Joshua faked his “miracle healings”, which were broadcast to millions of people around the world.”

The Namibian recounts one story :

Jessica Kaimu, now a broadcast journalist in Namibia, says she was just 17 and a virgin when Joshua raped her in the bathroom of his penthouse, within weeks of her becoming a disciple. “I was screaming and he was whispering in my ear that I should stop acting like a baby… I was so traumatized, I couldn’t cry,” she says. Jessica says this encounter was repeated again and again, throughout the five years she spent as a disciple. Her account mirrors that of other women who spoke to the BBC, and also of accounts by four of Joshua’s male personal servants who were given the job of clearing up the physical evidence of this abuse.”



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David French Doubles Down on ‘Castrating Childen is Not Abuse’+ Inadvertedly Gives a Defense of Abortion

‘David French, who we like to unaffectionately call ‘The State’s Fool”, is a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who can always be counted on to give the worst take possible on any situation. This is especially true in a recent NYT Op-ed, where he chastised people who were decrying the chemical castration of children and labeling it as abuse, while also arguing that politicians need to stop passing laws making trans surgeries illegal.

After getting significant blowback, French doubledowned on Twitter. He protests that giving puberty blockers to children, encouraging them in their supposed gender dysphoria, and ultimately helping them cut off healthy breasts and penises is not “abuse” if it’s legal and doctors are willing to do it. This while havin gall to insist “I oppose medical interventions to transition kids.” His logic follows:

  • We permit states to seize custody of children when their parents abuse or neglect them, such as beating them, cutting them, starving them, or sexually abusing them. This is actual abuse.
  • Trans surgeries for children are not ‘abusive’, and it’s wrong to define them as such, particularly when they stem from parents, doctors, and caregivers doing their best to love their children. 
  • It is wrong to define trans surgeries and procedures as ‘abuse’ if doctors and legislators say it’s not abusive, and if labeling it as abusive will needlessly result in children being removed from their gender-affirming parents.


French argues that the definition of “abuse” should not be expanded to include genital mutilation in children, but this shows how broken and compromised this thinking is.

Labeling genital mutilation as abuse is not an EXPANSION of the definition, but rather refusing to include it and seeking to carve out an exception for it through some progressive medical rebranding is a SHRINKING of the definition of abuse.

French’s deranged stuttering is almost perfectly analogous to abortion. “I oppose abortion, but because legislators and the medical community say it’s not killing a baby and personhood is not settled, I don’t want the definition of “murder” to be expanded to include slicing off a child’s limbs and then suctioning the entrails. I also don’t want the civil government to make it illegal or restrict it or do anything about it, as that would be an infringement of the mother’s rights, who is just trying to do what’s best for her in consultation with her doctor.”

In making a defense for one he makes a defense for the other, all the while demonstrating he’s a caricature of himself.

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Woke SBC Elites Plan to Make your Church Pay for Abuse at Other Churches

Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force Team Member floats trial balloon that entire SBC is responsible for abuse anywhere in SBC.

(Capstone Report) Your tiny, autonomous Baptist church just might be on the hook for some pervert working at a megachurch if a push by Woke SBC Elites comes to fruition. As the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) grapples with its response to sex abuse at autonomous churches, some involved in the process are floating the idea that every SBC cooperating church is responsible for abuse at any SBC cooperating church.

According to Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force Team member Todd Benkert, “Finally, and here I think is where I will get the most pushback, there is at least some responsibility for us as a denomination toward abuse that happens in ANY of our churches.”

You in a rural Alabama church are at least somewhat responsible for abuse at say a Dallas area megachurch. Or, more precisely, the dollars you and your members give to mission work through the Cooperative Program are at least somewhat up for grabs to the Woke SBC Elite and their lawyer buddies.

Oh, and in case you missed it, Benkert makes clear he wants to make your church pay for perverts that have no connection with your tiny congregation.

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. Editor’s Note. This article was written and published at The Capstone Report

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Prominent ‘Pastor’ Larry Reid Accused of Molesting Teenage Boy

Dr. Larry Reid is the founder of the MBN Network (MBN), the owner of LDREnterprises, and the Senior Spiritual Leader of Reformation Church of Atlanta, a “cyber-church” that seems defunct. His website biography describes him as a “Multimedia Personality, Comedic Commentator, Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Spiritual Leader” who hosts a show where hundreds of thousands of people tune in each week.

Reid is known for giving social commentary and weighing in on spiritual abuse, setting himself up as a champion of the oppressed who exposes bad churches and bad pastors.

A few months ago, a man named Lavontraye Andrews publicly accused Larry Reid of molesting him when he was in his teens. Reid in turn sued for defamation but then quickly dropped the lawsuit. 

In an interview with Tasha K, Andrews shares that after his father and mother divorced, his father was absent and it caused him some trauma, having difficulty working through he effects of not having a father figure in his life.

Andrews started attending Breakthrough Church where Reid was the Senior Pastor. Soon, Reid became that father figure for him, so much so that the teen eventually came to live with him in his home. Andrews alleges that Reid groomed him for over a year, telling him things like ‘engaging in gay sex acts doesn’t make someone gay,’ or ‘giving another man oral sex doesn’t make a person gay’, planting the seeds of how to frame in the future any overtures he may make.

Soon after Reid molested him. Andrews explaining that the events took place in the context of a father/son dynamic, where Reid framed the abuse as a way he could give the young teen a spiritual covering and he in turn could help the minister relieve some of the spiritual pressures he was under. He describes the abuse in part:

Reid so far has denied any and all allegations.

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Denhollander Has HUGE Conflicts of Interest in Relationship with SBC Abuse Hotline

Is the SBC paying a lawyer to direct people to sue the SBC?

Direct messages reveal Rachel Denhollander’s conflict of interests and that raises serious ethical questions for lawyers.

Abuse advocates and survivors realize the SBC’s Abuse hotline ‘simply cannot be trusted.’

(Capstone Report) The Southern Baptist Convention is directing abuse reporters through its Abuse Hotline to an abuse advocate and lawyer Rachael Denhollander. Unfortunately, new revelations reveal not only Denhollander’s conflict of interest but also, she is secretly directing abuse survivors to lawyers who could file lawsuits against the SBC and directing the abuse survivors to friendly members of the press—in what is clearly a pressure campaign against the SBC. So, it would appear the Southern Baptist Convention is funding a system where abuse victims are routed to a lawyer who advises alleged abuse victims on tactics to maximize financial and reputational harm to the SBC.

Abuse survivor and appellate lawyer Christa Brown made the stunning revelations in a new column posted by Baptist News Global and then revealed supporting documentation on Twitter. According to the documents posted on Twitter,

Brown said, “Since my truthfulness has been publicly questioned, here’s 1 text from Denhollander: ‘I am the advocate they will refer survivors to so I can help them evaluate press & legal options…’ There’s more. I gave documentation to @baptist_news before they published. Common practice… Context? Here’s another excerpt from a Denhollander text: “GP gave her my info…I just can’t publicly say that I’m helping survivors potentially sue…” That is apparently one reason why this info about Denhollander’s role with the hotline has not been widely disseminated.”

Here are the direct messages of interest Brown posted. Pay special attention to the last lines where Denhollander tells Brown that “I just can’t public say that I’m helping survivors potentially sue.”

The SBC is funding the hotline. The only question—is the SBC paying Denhollander?

If so, that raises all sorts of legal questions. Of course, even if not that raises serious questions. Plus, there were already questions with the Sex Abuse Task Force decided to “retain” Denhollander—after all Denhollander represented a client who threated a lawsuit against the SBC and settled that case for over a million dollars thanks to Ronnie..

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Editor’s Note. This article was written and published by the Capstone Report. Title changed by Protestia.

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Johnny Hunt Has Been Restored to Ministry by Pastoral Group

Six months after it was revealed that the Pastor Emeritus of FBC Woodstock and former President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Johnny Hunt, either committed sexual assault against a family friend over a decade ago (her side) or a “brief, improper encounter” that was fully “consensual” (his side) resulting in him being formally suspended from the church he founded and pastored for decades, Hunt has been deemed fit to return to ministry by as panel of pastors overseeing his restoration. 

Hunt, who himself is said to have restored over 400 pastors, underwent an “intense season of transparency, reflection, and restoration” with the full blessing of his church, led by Mark Hoover of NewSpring Church, Benny Tate of Rock Springs Church, Mike Whitson of First Baptist Church, and Steven Kyle of Hiland Park Baptist Church.

In a video about the matter, they do not address the veracity of the claims, nor the woman in question who tells a much different story than Hunt, but rather heap praise upon the disgraced pastor in very flattering and glowing terms.

Over the course of the last several months, Johnny and Janet had submitted themselves to a series of intense private counselling sessions together. Alongside that, Pastor Johnny engaged separately in an onsite intensive counselling program as well. This is all in addition to the 16 weeks of private counselling the Hunts participated in 12 years ago, when the original incident occurred.

At the time of the incident, the congregation was never told about Hunt’s indiscretions and the whole thing was swept under the rug by multiple SBC Pastors.

When Johnny has conviction he puts everything he’s got into it, all of his energy, every minute, and we’ve seen the same conviction during these last several months. He has made this process his full-time job. He’s been all-in on healing his family and ensuring that he’s fulfilled the biblically required process of repentance and restoration. 

And he has, and this may sound strange, but he’s been all-in on the humility required to open his entire life and heart to us, also to his counsellors, and other spiritual and personal advisors. …I believe we can recognise when someone is truly repentant or not. When they take these obligations seriously or they don’t. And I’m so grateful for the spirit and attitude with which Johhny has approached our probing questions and our challenges to them, and the ongoing requirements we’ve set out for them. And all that one more thing. 

Addressing the previous counselling that was said to have taken place, which was never made public, Hoover concludes:

This was a unique circumstance in that there was a process of restoration, which also took place 12 years ago, that process included counselling, and a confession to those involved. We believe that process was real, it was substantial, and it was biblical.

Kyle concludes:

We believe the greatest days of ministry for Johnny hunt, are the days ahead. And I’m thankful that we have a God that that forgives, restores, and a God that works in powerful and mighty ways. And so and so for that, we are grateful.

Hunt himself appears at the very end of the video and shares “In the remaining years of ministry, I’m praying that the lessons God has taught me through all this, he’ll use for His glory in the lives of others, particularly as I continue to be committed to mentor and encourage pastors, and to preach God’s word, every opportunity that he gives me.”

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Podcasts! Pronoun Hospitality, JD Greear, and What Actually Constitutes Spiritual Abuse

On today’s episodes we challenge the idea that the bloody and sinful history of Christendom stands in judgment of Christianity, discuss what actually constitutes spiritual abuse, look at new accusations of plagiarism and how cut and dry it actually is+ fun patron questions.

On Bible Bashed, Tim and Harrison discuss whether Christians should show gender hospitality, consider whether JD Greear’s statement on the usage of preferred pronouns clear enough, as whether we are lying to others by using preferred pronouns, and then discuss whether or not transgenderism is a mental illness?

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NZ Gov’t Investigating Nation’s Largest Megachurch After Damning Internal Report

New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs is investigating the country’s largest church after it commissioned an internal report into allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct from within the congregation, found the results damning, and then refused to release it and address the complaints.

Conducted by Pathfinding, the 49-page report was commissioned by the church after several public stories came out that cast the 10,000-member multisite Arise Church in negative light. Senior Pastor John Cameron would resign after this initial revelation. In total, 545 people came forward with a story to tell, including current and former members of staff, past board members, and students.

Consequently, many stories of racism, bullying, manipulation, extravagant spending, abusing the interns through overwork, and sexual harassment emerged. Pathfinding recommended a wide array of course corrective actions the church should undertake, 92 in all, to establish greater financial accountability and a healthier church environment, including the termination of the board in exchange for another one, on account of how corrupt things got, writing:

“Notwithstanding the new appointments, the board as an entity has lost its moral mandate to govern Arise. We believe it to be unacceptable that the board were unaware of key issues within Arise, and did not initiate the necessary mechanisms to ensure they could exercise their governance responsibilities.”

Not only did the board not resign, but they refused to release the report, despite previously promising they would, and didn’t even tell the congregation what any of the recommendations were. In fact, they sought to have a gag order put on it through the Employment Relations Authority (ERA), who initially granted their request.

Then the report was leaked by the investigative site Webworm, much to the outrage of the church, who complained that the missive was “illegally obtained.” Once leaked, the ERA rescinded the publication ban, and the news has roiled the congregation, catching the attention of Charities Service, a division of Internal Affairs. Charities General Manager Natasha Wright said of the leaked report:

“In light of recent developments, Charities Services has opened an inquiry and will be re-engaging with the charity. As this matter is now subject to our regulatory processes, it is not appropriate to make any further comment.”

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Bible Bashed: Is Sending Your Children To Public School Child Abuse?

Is sending your children to public school more harmful than helpful? Should Christians send their kids to public school as “missionaries”? Is it sinful to send your children to public school or simply unwise? What alternatives are there to public school?

The newest member of the Protestia family, Bible Bashed will answer all these questions and more. Don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast and like the video.