I witnessed first-hand people who didn’t know this guy from Satan talking about him like he was some glowing messiah - with a glint in their eyes like a deranged cult member.
2008 was when it started. Then I started seeing the freaky stuff, the model wearing a dress with his face on it, the ridiculous claims, “linking” him with Holy Scripture (good gosh), church song sung by congregation praising him, the Hitler youth-like songs, .....
It was just beyond bizarre. To me, anyways.
I didn't even bother to engage them about the items and I'll let you guess the race of the person (hint: they were not Irish nor Scandinavian). They just raved on about him as if he was The Second Coming of Jesus.