Messer Crowns Eddie Long as King

In response to the request of several people wanting an explanation (religious, biblical or otherwise) on the video of the coronation of Bishop Eddie Long, we here at Rhetoric Race and Religion will collect responses and place them on our blog. If there are responses you find, please share them with us. Thanks

from the Rosh Pina Project

I have never seen anything quite like this before as self-proclaimed Messianic Rabbi Ralph Messer proclaims Bishop Eddie Long to be a king during a Sunday service on January 29 2012.

After picking myself up from the floor when he declares he is pulling the foreskin off the Torah scroll, I didn’t laugh again, I was just horrified as he wrapped Long in a Torah scroll and had him hoisted up in the chair and carried around declaring him to have the chromosome of a king!

Messer claims the Torah scroll was a priceless 312 years old scroll saved from Auschwitz after World War II. For Messer it seems like no ordinary Torah scroll would not do the job of purging Long from the accusations of financial wrongdoing and sexual misconduct leading to his wife filing for divorce. Long stepped down from the pulpit and had only just returned for his crazy coronation.
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