In a desert tent guarded by armed police and a thick-set bouncer, religious cult Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is blessing a constant stream of pilgrims, who garland her with marigolds and kneel to touch her feet.
I have said it many times before, but it bears repeating. Cartoon gospel tract publisher
Jack Chick died too early, before he could see the end times future
his tracts warned about coming to life in all its ignominious glory. Case in point is today's story on transgender religious cult leader who is now being worshipped as a demi-god by Hindus in India. Just when you think you've seen it all, this happens.
"Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" Exodus 15:11 (KJV)
When I read about the groves and the 'high places' in the Old Testament where the Jews angered the living God by going there to worship false gods, in my mind's eye it is a frenzied scene, full of noise and confusion like what you see in the photos here in this article. It is becoming more and more obvious to me as these types of stories are increasing, that in the end times religion of Antichrist that will be active in the says after the
Rapture of the Church, that not only will it feature the LGBTQ, but transgender in particular will hold a key spot in that system. There just seems to be something about transgenderism that captures the imagination of lost people, and fascinates them.
"Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:"Numbers 33:52 (KJV)
From pariah to demi-god: transgender leader a star at massive Indian festival
FROM REUTERS: Tripathi, a tattooed transgender leader and a former reality TV star, has become
an unlikely icon at India’s Kumbh Mela, a huge religious festival being held on the banks of the Ganges river in the city of Prayagraj. Up to 150 million people are expected to attend by the time the festival ends in March.
On Tuesday, her religious movement, called the
Kinnar Akhada, became the first transgender group to bathe at the confluence of the holy Ganges and the Yamuna rivers on the first day of the ancient festival, traditionally reserved for reclusive Hindu priests, almost all of whom are men.
“After centuries down the line, it was when the community finally got its due,” Tripathi told Reuters, seated on a pedestal next to her Michael Kors bag, juggling calls on an iPhone.
Many at the festival cheer Tripathi for reclaiming the lost place in Hinduism for India’s “third gender”, known as the hijras, worshipped as demi-gods for thousands of years, but ridiculed and sidelined during British colonial rule.
A law passed in 1871 classed the hijras as “criminals”. Little changed after independence and hijras were pariahs, living in tribes, begging or soliciting for sustenance and harassed by police.
It was only in 2014 that the Supreme Court officially recognized transgender people as a third gender. Tripathi is one of the best known. But her support for building a controversial Hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque has angered some in the LGBT community, who allege she is courting support from India’s powerful religious right to further her own influence.
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