Posted on 10/02/2024 5:22:07 AM PDT by Morgana
Following our recent stories of NIFB pastor Steven Anderson’s son Isaac detailing vicious abuse and beating at the hands of his father, and then his other son John alleging years of abuse by his father against his mom, claiming he used to hit her and whip her with an electrical cord, a third Anderson child has come forward, with Miriam Anderson, 17, claiming that her home life was so bad, that “from the time that I was probably like 11 to 15, I thought about killing myself every day. And I remember even as a little kid praying that God would kill me.”
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, Miriam recounts: (transcript lightly edited for clarity)
“He was very abusive both to my mom and us as kids. From a very young age I can remember my dad would, he would hit my mom, he would assault her in various ways. To give an example…we always had these bar stools in our kitchen. And I remember as a kid, they were always broken because he would throw them at my mom, he would hit her with them, he would like, hurl them across the room at her head and stuff. And so we probably bought new bar stools every month growing up it was ridiculous.”
She continues:
(My mom) got upset at him because he had used her sewing scissors for something that wasn’t sewing. And she had told him, ‘oh, don’t do that, these are my special sewing scissors’… And I remember my dad broke all of her sewing scissors in half, and he was throwing them at her. And they were like, I remember some hit her in the face and on her arms and stuff. And I remember being a little kid and having to clean up all the broken in half sewing scissors.
It was her job as the oldest daughter to protect the kids from this as best as she could, which was not always possible.
So it was a lot of things like that growing up where it was like, I not only saw my mom abused in a lot of ways, he would beat her with this electrical extension cable, which he also would beat us with at times. Sometimes they would send us out of the house. Sometimes they would be ‘like, okay, go to the backyard,’ and we would all be standing in the backyard, and we could hear my mom in the house screaming and crying.
…then sometimes he would just be angry and he wouldn’t even care to…send us away, so I would have to take my siblings…you know, and put them in the other room and try to distract them and read them a story or something, but it was, you know, it’s kind of hard to distract from that kind of thing.
Miriam says that this sort of behavior from her parents, both mom and dad, led her into a serious depression, overwhelmed by the responsibilities.
It’s kind of like, especially growing up as the oldest daughter, right? There was all this responsibility put on me because my older brothers, the mentality was, well, they’re boys, so they’re not gonna grow up and be homemakers or whatever. So they weren’t expected to do like cooking and cleaning and childcare as much. And so growing up it was like there was kind of all this responsibility put on me where I have to cook and I have to clean and I have to take care of kids. And even when I was like seven, eight, nine, ten, I was like cooking, I was cleaning, I was taking care of little kids.
And especially since my parents were constantly in this kind of they like, they would start fighting and it’s like they aren’t really paying attention to anything but their fight. So then, you know, kids still have to be fed and they still have to be taken care of and someone still has to put them to nap and clean up the house.
This became so overwhelming, to the point that she wished for death even as a child
I was constantly feeling like…I’m responsible for my parents’ marriage, and I’m the reason why everything’s going wrong, and I have to make dinner, and I have to take care of the little kids, and I have to make sure that they don’t know what dad’s doing to mom in the other room.
..And when I got to be a teenager, I kind of decided that the second I turned 18, I was out of there. And I was going to move out the day I turned 18. And it was a part of me that was a little bit conflicted because I didn’t like the idea of leaving my siblings in that situation. But at the same time, I kind of had realized that I was reaching a breaking point personally because I was so unhealthy just being in that environment. I would constantly be physically sick from crying and not be able to keep food down, and I would lose my appetite for days on end.
I had like a bunch of nervous behaviors where I would constantly be chewing my fingernails and ripping open my cuticles to the point where my hands were completely ripped apart. My hands were always super bloody and my mom made fun of me for this a ton of course.
I was also very depressed and I thought about suicide constantly for years on end. From the time that I was probably like 11 to 15 I thought about killing myself like every day. And I remember even as a little kid like praying that God would like kill me because I just did not want to be around anymore.
At this point, Miriam is not living at home and does not want ever to go back. Anderson doesn’t know exactly where she is, but has accused his brother Clint of “stealing her” and “abducting her” from him because he last saw her living at his house in another state and is demanding that she come back. (She had gone to visit her cousins and their family for summer vacation and never came back)
He released a video claiming that Clint and his wife have poisoned her mind against him, because prior to her leaving, he and his daughter were “good buddies” and had a “really good relationship.”
That whole post just what was contained in the first 20 minutes of the interview. See the whole thing below:
KJV only people are a little nuts anyway.
I agree.
New Independent Fundamental Baptist (NIFB)
This is clinical Narcissism. The father perverted religion to his cultic means. Hopefully the daughter and her siblings will get the help they need.
And there were a few people on Freerepublic who liked this guy and defended his views.
Heartbreaking for these kids. I pray that God the Father would heal them. Shame on this devil of a man who uses the message of Jesus and compassion as a shield to hide behind and live his life of corruption and depravity.
1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
Sounds like another phony, like Fred Phelps.
I ask them what Bible version did the disciples use. I never get an honest answer.
Our church, when we lived one county over, had a KJV only radical. He threatened the pastor with violence many times, leading up to threatening to kill him in spite of having a protective order against him. The radical went to the pastor’s home, threatened his children many times. He was finally arrested.
I don’t think they stop to consider that Jesus didn’t read/speak in King James English.
“And there were a few people on Freerepublic who liked this guy and defended his views.”
He’s a heretic. I’ll be the first to say it.
He told homosexuals to “kill themselves” That is demonic.
Read Acts 17:30 God calls us to repent.
Also read 1 Corinthians 6 9-11
9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, 10 Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God
11 And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.
That verse is clearly saying some of them were homos back then but changed their ways after they came to Jesus. Anderson and people like him say it’s impossible for them to be converted but it’s not.
“like Fred Phelps.”
You are close. Mr Anderson is a grad of the Hyles-Anderson college (don’t know if he is related). You know the one with Jack Hyles? More recently Jack Schaap sent to prison for sex abuse of a minor. You may see his video “polishing the shaft” on youtube.
Typical behavior of a narcissistic sociopath psychopath. The mega churches are led by all of these psychos. The most dangerous is Joel Olsteen. A classic covert narcissist. Wake up people.
How horrific.
A man who is a failed father and husband does not belong in any church leadership role. It’s debatable whether he should even qualify provisionally to be a member of a local church.
1 Timothy 5:8 NKJV
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
I Timothy 3:4-5 NKJV
[A church leader must manage] his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
These types and all other worse types of scandals cross all denominational lines. I think you know this.
Perhaps you suggest that believing something about the King James Bible causes this type of abuse?
Perhaps you even believe abuse is caused by adherence to the doctrines taught within it?
Either way, you will have an opportunity when you stand before God, to take issue with Him directly about the things in His Word that you don’t like. I wish you the best, but I do fear for you.
I remind you that a fundamentalist is simply someone who actually believes the foundational tenets of his religion. Protestia on their “aboutmain” page indicate identity with the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1644. Furthermore Protestia does not engage in the kind of slur that you Morgan are guilty of on this thread, namely attacking those of us who identify as Biblical Baptists who are also independent of denominational affiliation and control.
Taken in 2017. Looks like Mom wasn't allowed to fix herself up at all, either. Oldest boy looks like he wasn't buying it. God bless all those children and help them find a path out of this mess spiritually.
He has a crazy gleeful expression, given all he should have been repenting for. Probably manic depressive. Those poor kids.
4 of the oldest have turned on him. I’ve been listening to their stores on youtube.
They have been spilling the beans on everything and I do mean everything. Including their parents sex life. I didn’t need to know that Steven is into BDSM but you know it figures. You know somethings kids ought not to know. I only ever saw my parents kiss and I’m glad of that. I mean I know they did more but still. These kids did not need to hear that late at night.
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