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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<\/i><\/span>

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By<\/i><\/span>\u00a0ANTHEA BUTLER<\/a><\/span><\/span>
Religion Dispatches<\/span>

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While most Christians were having regular Sunday services, over at Eddie Long\u2019s New Birth Church in Lithonia, Ga,\u00a0Ralph Messer<\/a>,\u00a0who is part of the\u00a0Hebrew Roots movement<\/a>, was crowning Eddie Long King<\/a> in an elaborate ceremony that included wrapping Long in a Torah Scroll purported to be found at Auschwitz and Birkenau.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>

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In case you\u2019re unable or unwilling to watch: the video shows Messer giving Long the Torah scroll declaring that he is the first man to look upon the scroll after 3000 years. Long is \u201cwrapped in the scroll\u201d and prayed over. Messer asks Long to take a seat, and declares that God gave Long a position of power and authority. He is given the constitution of God as a king (6:49), the Torah, and then, Messer has four men representing the four corners of the earth, (7:04) pick the chair up. Messer then declares that Eddie Long is raised up from a commoner to a King, replete with music, cheers, and a poorly executed blessing in Hebrew. If it weren\u2019t so offensive to Christian and Jewish sensibilities, it would be laughable.<\/span><\/i><\/span>
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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. 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