Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
Behind the Bastards
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4.4 • 17K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.
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“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus
Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer
Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices
‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox
Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about bad people who are the people you'll be hearing about most in your daily life if you spend any amount of time on social media or listening to the news. |
| 0:18.5 | But we're going to be talking about a fun one today. |
| 0:21.1 | Not as depressing as the bad people who make up the rest of your day-to-day life. |
| 0:25.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:26.6 | They make up my day-to-day life, and that's pretty depressing. |
| 0:29.3 | But not today, because we've got Molly Lambert as a guest. |
| 0:32.9 | Molly, welcome on the show. |
| 0:35.2 | Are you ready to have your day be worse? |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:39.2 | Oh, great. |
| 0:40.5 | I'd transition to the tall boys of Zivia. |
| 0:42.9 | You have. |
| 0:45.0 | That's for some reason. |
| 0:46.4 | That's very funny to me. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | 12 ounces just wasn't enough. |
| 0:50.3 | Molly, what do you got a plug today at the start of the episode before I introduce our bastard? I've got a book that came out called Double Axe and Pop. Holy shit. Congratulations. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes. Thank you. It's out from commercial type. It's about musical duo acts and everybody |
| 1:08.4 | check it out. And then later this year, I have a podcast coming |
| 1:11.2 | out called Jenna World, which is about the history of the porn industry through kind of the |
| 1:16.9 | Jenna Jameson story. Oh, awesome. Yeah, that sounds fascinating. Well, today we're not talking about |
| 1:23.3 | Jenna Jameson. We're not talking about anyone who has ever done anything good at all. |
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