Tbf, a good chunk never believed his in your face Jesus phase. Especially as he was recently coming off his "
I'm Jesus, aka YEEZUS CHRIST" phase. It felt like another manic situation, especially cause a lot of celebs like Justin Bieber had been joining weird cultish megachurches around then and Kanye seemed to use his religious comeback as another way to prop himself up as better. It didn't seem to have the authenticity Jesus Walks seemingly had to people.
Maybe it was real and people were overly cynical, but considering it's dropped already I feel like it was just mania and him going against the grain. While gays are trying to boycott Chik filet he's making a song referencing them and goes around in interviews talking endlessly about how triggered people were by the Chik filet line that felt totally shoehorned in for the sake of "drama".
Also he was still with Kim and his former family when he made the album, they even featured in music videos