Earlier this year, Steven Anderson’s bank account was frozen by Bank of America and his funds were held for weeks before being returned via a cashier’s check in the mail. He was told, simply, that his account was terminated, he would not be told why, and the decision was irreversible (“Bank of America Freezes,” Pulpit & Pen, Apr. 16, 2019). He has also been frozen out by Paypal, Easy Tithe, and six other financial platforms, none of them giving a reason. He has been banned from traveling to about 34 countries, including England, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. This has to do with Anderson’s stand against homosexuality and possibly, too, his denial of the Holocaust. Anderson is a Baptist preacher who has wide influence through his YouTube videos and movies. He is laden down with heresies, as we warn in the book What about Steven Anderson? but corporations like Bank of America and PayPal should not be in the business of judging and punishing belief systems. Why should it be their business what their customers believe? This is moving in the direction of Communist China’s Social Credit system, but in this case it is faceless global corporations doing the rating and the punishing. (Friday Church News Notes, November 1, 2019, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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