Hulk Hogan, arguably the most popular wrestler that the WWE has ever featured, is no stranger to controversy, but the roller-coaster of events that has rocked his life over the past year in particular has brought the anti-Hogan diatribe to a fever pitch.

First there was a leaked sex tape; followed by a series of lawsuits regarding the matter of said tape. And this week, the press got a hold of audio from the tape in which Hogan releases a racist tirade and says the n-word multiple times. The audio recording might be the nail in the coffin for Hulk Hogan's image as a beloved and revered cultural icon of the 1990s. Hulk Hogan told Oprah that he had a conversion experience in 2007. Interestingly, Hogan has claimed that the sex tape and accompanying audio were made five years previously to its release, which would date it back to 2006.

Hogan's lawyer believes that the invasion-of-privacy lawsuit that his client filed against Gawker as a direct result of the sex tape leak is connected to the leaked audio. "I have my suspicions, as you can imagine," Hogan's lawyer David Houston said. Gawker vehemently denies this accusation, with Gawker President Heather Dietrick saying, "Hulk Hogan has only one person to blame for what he said, and no one from Gawker had any role in leaking that information."

As a long-time public follower of Pastor Joel Osteen, Hulk Hogan has publicly apologized for the language he used, saying, "Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it; and I apologize for having done it."

The longtime professing Christian tweeted on Friday, "In the storm I release control, God and his Universe will sail me where he wants me to be, one love. HH." Hulk (who is known personally by the name Terry Bollea) has proceeded to retweet several comments from fans of different ethnic groups that stand in support of their wrestling hero. Hogan also took to Twitter to post a picture that read, "God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers."

It's not surprising that Hulk Hogan is claiming that his faith in God is what is sustaining him during this tumultuous time. In a YouTube interview posted in 2010, Hulk Hogan explained that his faith is what he has relied on in hard times in the past. "When things were tough, I realized that 'this too shall pass' -- I realized this was just a temporary situation."

He continued, "The only things that are really real is the stuff that's going to last forever... You're not going to perish, you're going to have everlasting life. That belief and that faith in itself is pretty much the only thing that's real to me."

While many of Hogan's fans, who refer to themselves as "Hulk-a-MANIACS," pride themselves on standing by the wrestling icon, the Christian community has been mostly silent, with no other Christian public figures reacting to the desecration of Hulk's public persona. Perhaps they are waiting to see what might happen next in what has been a bizzarre and unpredictable series of events.