President George W. Bush often shows displays of his faith.
President Bush attended the National Prayer Breakfast on February 1st, a yearly event that draws a diverse crowd of political and religious leaders from across the nation. He spoke at length to those gathered, and as expected pushed hard for acceptance of his faith-based services plan from both sides of the altar. But he also took time out to talk about his own personal beliefs.
"I've believed in God since the moment he first appeared to me," Bush told the hushed crowd. "Telling me of all the wonderful things I would do in my life. How I would marry a wonderful woman, have two lovely daughters, and one day become president of the United States."
Bush further described how his faith influences nearly every thing he does, and how he believes his deeply held religious views will bring a new era of civility to Washington.
"This nation needs healing," he said, "it needs armies of compassion to lethally inject the conflicts that divisify our nation's capitol. We need to also be tolerant of other religions, even though they are false. As Jesus once said 'Let he without sin eat the first stones'. I'll tell you, I've eaten a bunch of stones in my day. I'm a stoner."
On Friday the president attended an annual retreat for Republicans. Before leaving for Camp David to rest after his first two weeks in office, he was asked to relate his meeting with God.
Bush paused to explain that God has appeared in many forms to many different people, but for him God was "an enormous black goat that reeked of excrement and oozed sizzling droplets of blood from monstrous horns. He spoke to me with putrid breath; commanded me to show my faith by kissing his butthole, which of course I did. And you want to know something funny? It was shaped like an upside down star."
