Another reason why Hinduism is way better then Christianity. They have a goddess of transexuals.

The five-day celebrations dedicated to Goddess Bahuchara Mataji, the Hindu presiding deity for transsexuals, ended yesterday in a ceremony that saw some 400 participants from Malaysia and Singapore at a temple in Pandamaran near here.

The temple, dedicated to the deity whose main temple is in Shankhalpoor in Gujarat, India, is owned and managed by the local Hindu transgender community.

Damn! How cool is that?

Actually I am not that much of a fan of Hinduism. Even though they seem to have a God for every single possible personality type, it is still a very complicated religion for the westerner to understand. I have read some books about Hinduism, though to be fair not as many as for other religions, and I found the stories to be very difficult to relate to.

But that may just be my own western sensibilities causing a roadblock and keeping me from absorbing the beauty of a religion that is very ancient and revered in India and beyond. So if anybody else wanted to join the religion I certainly would not try to dissuade them.

Though to be warned they have a lot of contradictory rules and over 136 different types of hell, though on the plus side you do get to be reincarnated.

Here's hoping you don't come back as a Republican.