Why this word is great
ANTHROPOLATRY — [Noun] The worship of a human being as a god. From the Greek anthrōpos ("human") and latreia ("worship"). Unlike "deification" (which refers to the act of making someone divine) or "idolatry" (which involves the worship of images, not necessarily human), anthropolatry is the raw, unmediated devotion to flesh and bone. It is the incense burned at the feet of a living emperor, the whispered prayers to a celebrity’s photograph on a bedroom wall, or the desperate press of hands against the hem of a televangelist’s robe—the oldest and most tragic confusion, where mortality is kissed like scripture, and the sacred is sought in the fragile, the fleeting.