Warren Buffett worship is taken to a new level in a striking example from the January 2010 edition of Harper's magazine. 

A cartoon of a God-like Buffett graces the cover of the latest edition of Harper's. Looking up in reverence are eight people who have come to worship at the foot of the Berkshire Hathaway master. 

The article's title is "The Church of Warren Buffett: Faith and Fundamentals in Omaha."

It's written by Mattathias Schwartz, who attended the 2009 Berkshire annual meeting.

During his reporting for the article in Omaha and beyond, Schwartz uncovers numerous examples of Buffett devotion.

The most memorable example comes in a barber's chair in the basement of the nondescript Kiewit Plaza office building -- where Berkshire Hathaway's fewer than two dozen employees toil at the company's global headquarters.

In that barber shop where Buffett gets his hair cut every other week, Schwartz finds Morgan Stanley senior vice president R.J. Meurer Jr.

Meurer had come to Stan the barber on the weekend of the annual meeting to sit where Buffett sits, and to place his head in the same spot where the brain of Berkshire Hathaway's chief thinker rests every other week. He peppers Stan for information on when Buffett last sat there and what he was reading.

Meurer, who has been to 10 Berkshire meetings, even keeps a framed piece of Buffett's hair on the wall of his office. 

Schwartz goes on in the article to tell the stories of numerous Buffett disciples.

He also gives a good description of what the annual meeting weekend is like, and how Buffett avoided most of the financial meltdown last year.