Eddie Long: The King of Kangs
The other day on Facebook, one of my sisters and my homegirl both hipped me to the latest antics of Bishop (and I use the term very loosely) Eddie Long and this cult parish over at New Life. In some weirdly ostentatious event at his church, Fast Eddie appears to have been coronated by guest speaker Rabbi Ralph Messer. I can’t call this one, so I’ll just let you see it for yourself (it gets interesting and, uh, stupid at around the 4 minute mark):
Got that? Fast Eddie…yes…the same Fast Eddied subjected to highly publicized allegations of sexual abuse and coercion of four young men…is now considered royalty. I haven’t the words.
Actually, I do I have a few things to say, mostly of an inquisitive nature:
(1) I’m sorry. But how is this not exalting a person of God? And where is this justified in the Bible? I forget.
(2) I can’t help but wonder how much Fast Eddie and his church paid this so-called “Rabbi” to do this mess.
(3) If the whole sex with boys thing isn’t enough for people to stop going to that damn church, will this? My guess is, not likely. In fact, evidence by all the people cheering and marveling at this coonery, I’m pretty sure he added a few members. Sigh. I know.
(4) Do they really expect us to believe that’s a real scroll? They know good and damn hell well they got that mess printed at Kinko’s.
(5) Carrying a throne? Really? What kind of hot mess is this?
(6) I wonder if Fast Eddie got aroused during all that talk about foreskin and raising stuff up (at the 1 minute mark). OK, let me stop.
Apparently, Fast Eddie has apologized for the event, but not because of the “crowning” itself, but because it may have attacked certain Jewish sensibilities:
I’m not Jewish and I don’t know much about the practice. So I’ll defer to them on that aspect of this story. But I will say as a Christian (particularly, but not limited to, being a member of a predominately black church), I’m concerned about how dangerous it is that church members erroneously elevate many of these so-called leaders to the status of God Himself. None of us are sinless, I get that. And I believe God is able and willing to use any one of us to advance His kingdom, despite our shortcomings. But this display is nothing short of flamboyance, arrogance, and nose-thumbing at God. Whether or not this was a deliberately orchestrated event to “restore” Fast Eddie to the ministry and bolster his embattled status, this nonsense was still wrong on every level possible.
What the heck is in the [holy?] water down there?
- ACL
Coonery? Yep; that just about sums it up.
When are our people going to get a clue? God Almighty…
As a scientist, I could not understand the claims that there are 22 chromosomes and 22 amino acids in line with 22 alphabets in the Hebrew alphabet as there are 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans and there are more than 22 amino acids although 20 are used to form building blocks of proteins. Anyway, I don’t see any significance even if the claims and been right. That’s just one of many problems with this. Coonery it is! I hope other church leaders are standing up to correct this.
Well I say, judge not, lest you be judge. there are two sides to every story. in this case 5 or 6, no pun intended. I know the old saying where there’s smoke there’s fire. I’m not saying he is totally innocent of anything, and I not saying his totally guilty either. if this man done the things that these boy’s said he did, I pray GOD make an example out of him, and not just speculation. as for his followers, I pray that they are not following the man and only following the world that he his offering. I understand that a good spiritual teacher is hard to find ( trust me ) it took me years to find the 3 good spiritual teachers that I can truly learn from. 1) is the pastor of my new home church 2) is a radio pastor 3) is a TV pastor. all 3 of these people are great teachers, but neither of them are flawless. they are all flawed and they talk about how flawed they really are. to me that is the sign of a true person of GOD. to not to and hide their flaws, but let their followers know that they are just like them. I’ll pray for brother Long even though I have never met him are heard any of his messages. I pray that GOD will inflict him to bring him to a greater spiritual level. and I’ll also pray the same prayer for those boys. and that GOD will bring resolution to all who may be damaged and stuck in position by this
Let me take a guess: you go to New Birth.
The videos are no longer available. Too bad, it promised to be an interesting watch.