This guy is named Chad Knudson and he was a member of Cornerstone Church, the one that wanted to napalm Palestine that Jack was so fond of? He has been seen recently posting in one of Jacks religious groups on Facebook about how he wants to die. He has a youtube channel and uploaded about 5 videos to it, most of which are about throwing knives. While he does technically throw knives in them, they’re mostly just him pontificating about how great he is at knife throwing and angling the camera to hide his poor accuracy and technique.
This video however, is what Chad uploaded two weeks ago. He calls it a ‘testimony’ in air quotes because he created a similar video on Facebook in 2020 of the same name and subject where he gives conflicting details to his testimony in this video. In it, Chad details the extent to which his life is an absolute disaster and I’ve done my best to compile a timeline amongst the schizoid ramblings across three hours of insanity in this video and his other 'testimony' on Facebook.
At multiple points throughout, there are moments where Chad regresses into reciting scripture with the conviction of Jacob Seed from Far Cry 5, for no apparent reason, often crying and speaking in tongues when he does, creating an extremely awkward and uncomfortable viewing experience.
Chad Robert Knudson was born in 1973 in Oclair, Wisconsin. He lived with his mother and two siblings, a brother and a sister, on a farm. His father left them when Chad was very young. Most of his young life is spent moving from place to place around the western Great Lakes area, from Minnesota to Illinois.
Soon after beginning elementary school in Bloomington Minnesota, Chad is taken on a trip to DisneyLand by his grandfather. On the return trip, they come to the traffic light at the crossroads near Joliet Prison in Illinois. According to Chad while waiting for the light to turn green, his grandfather points out the prison and says:
“You see that? That’s a prison. One day, you’ll be in one of those.”
Chad mentions other abuse from his grandparents and others but does not give additional specifics. He feels this moment in particular cursed him to a life of conflict with the law.
Chad's mother, according to Chad, was addicted to drugs and suffered from various mental illnesses; this led to her being incarcerated at various times during his childhood. At one point her wrist was broken when she was kicked by a mule. Two weeks later she amputated her own broken arm claiming “it interrupted her work.”
During this time, Chad attended a fire and brimstone church headed by a Pastor Hanson in Wisconsin called Our Savior Church. Chad did not find interest in religion yet in his life at this time though it is important to note he is often surrounded by people who use faith as a cudgel.
His mother died for unexplained reasons when he was 13 in 1986. Chad says this gave him ‘homicidal tendencies.’ He does not elaborate much on this but he does mention that because of this he was institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital and raised as a ward of the state until he was 16.
When he is 19, Chad marries a woman named Dominique Sheree Piper. They had a son the year after that around 1992. According to Chad, Dominique forces him to get a vasectomy after this and he resents her greatly for it. Two years after that Chad abandons them to avoid domestic abuse charges and flees to Tennessee where he finds work as a flooring installer.
Vineyard Church is dedicated to furthering the relationship its parishioners have with Jesus and obviously the best way to do that is to recreate the exact moment in which Jesus was executed by the state. Even going so far as to literally ruin their floors with the f a k e blood they use in the performance. One day the install team happens to bring one Chad Knudson to replace the floors after another blood performance and Chad is so intrigued by the spilling of blood he feels has to learn more about this church stuff. He begins to regularly attend service around 1997 and there, he meets a woman named Amber who he begins dating. He has to use a comically large bible to accommodate a larger print because his alcoholism has ruined his vision.
Chad is about 25 years old and will finally meet his biological father for the first time in Minnesota. Chad says this meeting goes horribly. He does not give specifics but apparently what his father said was “shameful.” He leaves his fathers house in anger. While he is driving back to Tennessee his car breaks down in Illinois.
Unable to do anything about the car, he wanders off into a nearby bar and gets drunk. For reasons Chad doesn’t explain, the police are called as he is leaving the bar and he is confronted by police outside. The police ask him to walk in a straight line and he fails which Chad blames on the gravel in the parking lot. Chad is noted by the authorities to be armed with his throwing knives and tells them: “I am a weapon of the Lord.” Chad is arrested for drunk and disorderly behavior. Chad shouts racial slurs at a black arresting officer while they were arriving at the jail. Who then slammed Chad against a wall; forcing the bones of his ring and pinky fingers to rip out through the skin on the back of his right hand.
After he is processed in jail he calls Amber and demands she bust him out four states over. He says he will divorce her if she does not get him out of jail. She complies and also uses her health insurance to bring him to a nearby hospital where he undergoes surgery for his hand. When he wakes up from anesthesia he has a huge chimp out and the police have to be called to detain him again. Fortunately for Chad’s sake, charges are not pressed against him and an unspecified ‘he’ buys Chad two 40oz and drives him back to Tennessee.
As a result of the surgery a pin was inserted into Chad's hand and a cast is braced over his right hand and forearm while his injury is healing. Because of the pain however, he believes his hand to be infected. He goes to the hospital where the doctors tell him that there is no infection. Chad believes the doctors are incompetent and is certain of an infection. Chad then proceeds home to remove the cast against the advice of the doctors.
When he arrives at his home in Clarksville. Chad cuts his cast off and also rips out the pins holding his hand together. The pain from this is so intense that it causes him to stagger out onto the porch and hallucinate the face of Jesus Christ in the sky. After seeing the savior in the clouds, he returns to the kitchen to eat cereal. He is perplexed that it is still difficult to move his right hand and feels intense pain when he tries to move it. He finally returns to the hospital where they properly re-bind his injuries.
Chad begins to notice that the police are monitoring him after this and is confused as to why the police are ‘stalking’ the angry drunken gun owner with violent tendencies for no reason. This event kicks off a series of bridge burnings beginning with his church.
He is forcefully ejected from a church service for no adequately explained reason around this time. He shouts scripture from his oversized bible at the pastor and law enforcement who were also apparently present while removing him from the premises.
Chad is then evicted from his home in Clarksville and is homeless for some time after this. In 2011 he attended Cornerstone Church and rubbed shoulders with Jack Scalfani. In 2020 he leaves Cornerstone and begins shopping around for a new church, one of which is called ‘Today's Victory,’ which he believes to be a scam. In fairness this church's website immediately asks any visitors for donations on the landing page, so maybe Chad is not that far off.
Chad does not say what kind of employment he currently holds but he says that he lost his job in 2020. As of now he seems to be extremely distrustful of people in general and does not currently attend church. He believes that our country is in turmoil and the inverted flag behind him is meant to be interpreted as a distress call. He does not specify exactly what the threat to America is, but he believes Disney to represent the demonic.
