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The New IFB website and social media accounts 鈥� launched in early 2018 鈥� have been taken down, and some pastors have distanced themselves from Anderson and his movement. This is the second time over the course of 12 months that controversy roiled the network. In January 2019, a previous conflict聽emerged when聽a New IFB pastor named Donnie Romero resigned after admitting to gambling and engaging with sex workers.

Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, is currently 聽for his anti-人兽性交 rhetoric in addition to calling for the deaths of 人兽性交 people. Last summer, he and a few other New IFB pastors convened in Orlando for the first 鈥� Make American Straight Again鈥� gathering, at which they all preached about the evils of homosexuality and called for state-mandated executions of 人兽性交 people. Anderson 聽at Pulse, an 人兽性交 bar in Orlando where a gunman murdered 49 people by saying that the world now had 鈥渇ifty less pedophiles.鈥�

Anderson founded Faithful Word in 2005 and since then has traveled extensively and created a worldwide network of like-minded pastors who have launched similar churches in several different countries.

With over 100,000 followers on YouTube, Anderson has an international media reputation for his fiery anti-人兽性交 statements. He also has a reputation for antisemitism. In 2015, Haaretz 聽that Anderson had duped four rabbis 鈥� including a Holocaust survivor 鈥� into appearing in his film 鈥淢arching to Zion鈥� in an attempt to prove that Jews are not the chosen people. He has preached several antisemitic sermons in recent years, including one in 2019 titled 鈥淭he Jews and Their Lies.鈥�

The New IFB had been serving as a vehicle for Anderson and like-minded pastors in the network, which included Australia, the Philippines, Canada and South Africa. Its website had been a hub of sorts for information about the network itself, as well as upcoming events and a list of the more than 30 churches and pastors involved with contact information.

Hatewatch first noticed in mid-January that the website for the New IFB, which also frequently posted videos, interviews and updated information about events relevant to the New IFB, was no longer available, not even on web archives. All of its social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were also gone.

A site that tracks the New IFB, called NewIFB.info, noted January 7 the disappearance of the New IFB sites and social media. The NewIFB.info site's tagline is "Exposing the Error of the Andersonites" and follows doctrine of the older Independent Fundamental Baptist movement rather than Anderson's New IFB. The site takes issue with Anderson and New IFB pastors, mostly in terms of doctrine.

The latest battle appears to be related to doctrine. NewIFB.info noted that Anderson is under attack from a few other New IFB pastors after he 聽for a documentary about soul-winning, or proselytizing, last July. New IFB doctrine considers Calvinism heresy.

As criticism started to emerge, Anderson tried to do early damage control, including preaching a sermon in July titled 鈥淲hat I Hate about Calvinism.鈥�

By December, three pastors had allegedly left the New IFB movement because of the association.

One of those was Michael Johnson of Temple Baptist Church in Jacksonville, North Carolina, who, according to Anderson, posted several anonymous YouTube videos attacking him. NewIFB.info also reported that Johnson 聽with a comment on one of his YouTube videos that claimed the New IFB was 鈥渃aught up in some cultish behaviors.鈥�

Accusations of New IFB being a cult were also made , who left after the聽Romero scandal in January 2019.聽

Another pastor, Manly Perry of Old Path Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas, 聽distancing himself from the New IFB. According , Perry鈥檚 church had been listed on the Faithful Word Baptist Church website 鈥� Anderson鈥檚 church 鈥� in August of last year, but it no longer appears.

And a third, Joe Major of Faith Baptist Church of Violet, Louisiana, formally broke from Anderson and the New IFB over the doctrine issues Dec. 22, making the announcement in a video he posted on YouTube titled 鈥淲hy I separated from Pastor Anderson.鈥� However, Major is still preaching at other New IFB churches, , Texas.

Anderson posted a 24-minute video Dec. 21 called 鈥淲ith Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies!鈥� in which he claimed that some of his pastor 鈥渇riends鈥� (which he put in air quotes) were 鈥済oing around and talking bad鈥� about him behind his back.

Perhaps because of the latest outbreak of infighting, Anderson also attempted to distance himself in that video from the movement he had a large part in starting, claiming that the New IFB 鈥渄oesn鈥檛 exist. There is no New IFB.鈥� He went on to say that when talking about the New IFB movement, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 just a colloquial term that we鈥檙e using just to kind of talk about pastors that we like, pastors that we鈥檙e friends with 鈥� it鈥檚 not some organization.鈥�

It鈥檚 unclear what these fractures will mean for the future of the New IFB movement. But without a unified聽online presence, Anderson鈥檚 ability to spread his message through the New IFB network is significantly diminished. One commenter on Joe Major鈥檚 YouTube channel summed up the uncertainty surrounding the New IFB, 鈥淭o [sic] Much Drama, last year Donnie Romero, this year this stuff. I鈥檓 starting to wonder about all this.鈥�

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