When
you think of the Kardashians, you might think big booties, fake
lashes, Kanye, and reality TV. The first thing that you think of
definitely wouldn’t be religion.
Yet
the most popular headlines hitting newsstands this week were about
Kim K and her three kids getting baptized in a historically famous
Armenian Cathedral.
This
cathedral has existed since the 4th century and is an iconic
spiritual center of Armenia’s national church, the Armenian
Apostolic Church.
With
her and North’s head covered, they look a lot less like the Western
celebrities they’ve molded themselves into today, and akin to their
Armenian lineage.
Both
Kim and North wore traditional head scarves, and Kim opted for a dark
brown, high necked maxi dress with long sleeves, a demure but
stunning look for the star.
In
the Armenian church, child baptisms are common, so adults are only
included if they haven’t been baptized as children, which Kim
wasn’t.
The
pictures are stunning, but we can’t help wondering if the trip was
more for the highly editorialized pictures and the sensationalized
media headlines than it was an effort for her to connect to her
spirituality and culture.
Maybe
her husband inspired her, with all of his gospel involvement, to find
her own truth in religion! After all, this year he claimed that he
“got saved.” Isn’t that what the strongest couples do, raising
each other up and discover new things about themselves?
In
2015, Kim Kardashian visited Armenia in 2015 for her first time,
paying tribute to the massacre that happened 100 years ago. She left
bouquets of flowers with her family at the Armenian Genocide
Memorial.
Armenians
must be proud that such a big celebrity is embracing and repping
Armenian pride, and are happy to have her as a spokesperson for the
country.
Being as famous as Kim and her family is a heavy pressure in society, but some might say that religion offers a kind of relief from this stress – a non-material form of hope in a world filled with expensive material goods.
