Steven Anderson, better known online as sanderson1611, is an American YouTuber who is the pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, USA. His username consists of his first letter of his first name, his last name, and "1611" (the year the King James Bible was published). Pastor Anderson is known for his controversial issues, most especially regarding Liberalism in the United States and LGBT rights. Sanderson1611 started his YouTube channel on August 16, 2007.
Video Content[]
Sanderson1611's content contains many types of videos ranging from live-streamed services, clips of services talking about certain issues, updates, soul-winning mission trips and family life. Occasionally, he creates documentaries such as "Iceland: Nation of Bastards" and "Marxist Luther King".
Controversy[]
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Steven Anderson and his church are classified as a "hate-group". Similarly to Westboro Baptist Church, Steven Anderson hates people who classify as LGBT, and has called for their deaths. In June 2016, just after the Orlando Pulse Bar Shooting, he uploaded a video explaining how he was glad the massacre happened and that there were "49 less pedophiles in the world". The original video was taken down, but has been re-uploaded by other YouTube users. Due to his rant, Steven was banned from several countries, including Botswana, South Africa, United Kingdom, Canada and Jamaica. After Anderson was banned from entering Jamaica, he uploaded a video explaining how this was just a part of the "New World Order".
Conservative Thinktank[]
Steven Anderson hosts a network of similar Independent Baptist & King-James Only pastors and churches, all of which believe that all LGBT must be killed. The thinktank home is hardpreaching.com, in which all of these pastors also have a YouTube page. This thinktank calls all other preachers, such as Joel Osteen, Pope Francis, Billy Graham, Ray Comfort and John Hagee, "sodomite pastors" and "false teachers" in their section False Prophets.