The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/strong>
By Larry Hartstein and Christian Boone
September 29, 2010 <\/div>\n
Bishop Eddie Long, speaking to his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday night, again did not directly address the sexual allegations made against him. Bishop Eddie Long said Tuesday if people believed media reports, "I’d be scared to show up, I’d be scared to look at you. But there’s something in me bigger than the situation<\/font><\/strong>." <\/span>"I’m not speaking about the individuals and all of that," he said, according to Channel 2 Action News. "This is spiritual warfare." Long said that if people believed media reports, "I’d be scared to show up, I’d be scared to look at you. But there’s something in me bigger than the situation"…<\/p>\n A group of 32 ministers attended the Lithonia church Tuesday night to pray with Long and support him. Long’s remarks were somewhat cryptic. "And I’m here to tell you whatever God spoke about me, whatever God said about me, it shall come to pass<\/font><\/strong>," Long said, according to Channel 2.<\/p>\n Long to congregation: ‘This is spiritual warfare’ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Larry Hartstein and Christian Boone September 29, 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, speaking to his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday night, again did not directly address the sexual allegations made against him. Bishop Eddie Long said Tuesday if people believed media reports, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bishop Long said Sunday that he was "not going to try this thing in the media." There’s a reason for that. He’d lose. It’s hard to listen to this young man [video<\/a><\/strong>] and not assume that the Bishop is "guilty as sin" – though Long seems to be playing this for exoneration. That seems unlikely to me. There’s too much collateral evidence – his lavish lifestyle, his costumes, his arrogance. And one wonders what "And I’m here to tell you whatever God spoke about me, whatever God said about me, it shall come to pass<\/font><\/strong>" or "there’s something in me bigger than the situation<\/font><\/strong>" <\/span>means to him. Is that just a con, or is he talking about something pretty crazy? Some of this stuff actually does sound pretty crazy – the marriage ceremony that one of his accusers describes, for example. We don’t hear the word "megalomania<\/strong><\/a>" very often these days, but this case may bring it back into wider usage… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"