Pastor Steven Anderson is notorious for his hatred of LGBTQ+ people. Now his son is a Nazi.

Hate preacher Steven Anderson’s son has repeatedly and consistently identified himself as a Nazi on social media. Steven Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, has gotten international notoriety for his sermons where he celebrates the deaths of LGBTQ+ people and praises people like the Pulse nightclub shooter, who killed 49 people in the LGBTQ+ venue.

As writer and podcaster Hemant Mehta notes in the most recent edition of his Friendly Atheist newsletter, Isaac, the second oldest of Anderson’s 12 children, recently posted a photo of his new tattoo on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. A screenshot of the since-deleted September 26 post shows a photo of a Nazi War Eagle emblazoned across a bare chest, presumably Isaac’s.

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“This church is not a free-for-all. This isn’t an open mic. This isn’t a karaoke bar. Okay?!”

Mehta goes on to catalog several other posts and comments apparently posted by Isaac between May and September of this year that remain visible on X.

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On May 16, the 20-year-old tweeted, “Being a nazi [sic] isn’t bad.” On May 29, he posted a photo of Adolph Hitler along with the caption, “Time to bring back order.”

In case those posts left any confusion, on August 5, he wrote, “Speak for yourself, I know I’m a Nazi.” Later that month, he tweeted that it is “Time to reopen and fill the camps with these degenerate third worlders.”

As recently as last Friday, Isaac engaged in a bit of back-and-forth with another X user, repeatedly confirming that he is in fact a Nazi. “I’m quite well informed on it, I’m a true believer,” he wrote, also confirming that he is “into fascism” and “the purity of the nation.”

A day earlier, he posted that “the Bible not only condones but it commands genocide against certain groups.”

“God calls for the genocide of entire ethnic groups and nations, even the children and babies,” he wrote.

Steven Anderson is the founder of the virulently anti-LGBTQ+ New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement, which is not affiliated with any mainstream Baptist denomination. His extreme hate speech has gotten him banned from dozens of countries, including all 27 of Europe’s Schengen states, Botswana, Jamaica, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Australia banned him in 2020. 

He earned a reputation as one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ preachers in the country after he praised the Pulse nightclub shooter, calling the victims “a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles” and “disgusting homosexuals who the Bible says were worthy of death.” In the past, Steven Anderson has encouraged his congregants to kill all gay people, calling it a “cure for AIDS.” He has also advocated for world governments to execute gay people.

As Mehta notes, Steven Anderson himself does not appear to have ever publicly identified as a Nazi. But according to the Anti-Defamation League, a video he released in 2015 described Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan.” He has also denied that the well-documented atrocities of the Holocaust actually happened.

Mehta writes that he reached out to Anderson to comment on his son’s embrace of Nazism. According to Mehta, Anderson simply replied that “attacking” his son was “unethical.”