worshippers

But many worshippers are now a lot more paranoid - putting these idols in iron cages to protect them from going missing.

He said worshippers were still following in those footsteps by being involved in the "ridding of ignorance and bringing people together".

That theory has been cited by numerous perpetrators of racial and antisemitic violence, including the attacker who murdered 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

To his relief, most of the worshippers at Myrtle Baptist Church in Newton, Massachusetts, embraced him.

“We are all worshippers of Baalim, and so we had this joke between us where we insult each another, jovially, as brothers would.…”