I heard White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mention that, although the president would not be participating in the National Day of Prayer this year, He did “pray every day”. That got me to thinking. Just who does Barry pray to? When one prays, one must be praying to someone. Four possibilities present themselves.

As a professing Christian, Barry, it might be presumed, prays to Jesus…

Barry: Dear Jesus. Please Lord, I need your guidance and wisdom. Lead me in all Thy ways.

Jesus: My son, thou art the one I have chosen—The One, if you prefer—who has been raised up in these Last Days to lead the people, like Moses (and Me and Honest Abe and FDR and JFK and, even, Reagan) before thee, out of the wilderness. You’re doing a great job so far. Reassuring the rest of the world that America was not a Christian nation—brilliant! I’m particularly impressed by your assault on all those little terrorists in the womb. Keep up your holy holocaust, my son. Also, you’re doing a terrific job harassing and marginalizing those whacko Evangelicals—I love that line you came up with, “bitter-clingers”; priceless—who have always been such a pain in the butt and an embarrassment to My Kingdom. Don’t worry, my son, I’ve got your back.

Certain conspiracy theorists insist that Barack Hussein Obama is really a closet-Muslim. I’m not sure I buy that. But, if true, then He might very well be praying to Allah…

Hussein: Allah ahkbar! Allah ahkbar! Allah ahkbar!

Allah: My Son, verily, verily I say unto Thee, Thou art the true Imam Mahdi spoken of by my servant and prophet for this age, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Do not be deceived by my prophet’s diminutive size, simian features or his psychotic babbling. As John The Baptist paved the way for the Prophet Jesus, my Iranian prophet shall pave the way for The Glorious One (You). Just follow Mahmoud’s lead, okay?

Hussein: Allah ahkbar! Allah ahkbar! Allah ahkbar!

Then there’s the remote possibility that Barry is, in fact, God Incarnate Himself. So perhaps His prayer time consists of a dialogue He is having with His Inner Messiah (much like a regular liberal dialogues with his inner child). This is, admittedly, a stretch. But if any uber-narcissist could pull it off, the hubristic Barack Hussein Obama could.

That leaves one final possibility. Could Barry The Devout be praying to the god of this world? I’m not suggesting that He is decorating the White House with pentagrams and candles or practicing Santeria in the Oval Office. In spite of the fact He’s part Kenyan—witchcraft is widely practiced in that country—Barry is just too sophisticated, too centered, to indulge in such uncouth religious expression.

But let’s face it. The Left has always worshipped the god of this world. When your ideology forces you to abandon any notion of a transcendent Deity that holds you morally responsible for your actions, then you’re left with the only alternative, the god who proclaims, “if it feels good, do it!”. As Chesterton put it, when one stops believing in God, one does not believe in nothing; he believes in anything. Or as Sartre formulates, if God is dead, then anything is permitted. Especially the humanistic enterprise to create Heaven on Earth (without any help or interference from a meddling anachronistic God).

From the very beginning the enticement was there: you, too, can be gods! This is the religion that is natural to Barry. Like the Jacobists and the communists before Him, Barack is a True Believer. Like His Bolshevik predecessors, He has pledged to remake the world. Don’t get me wrong. Barry is no Stalinist. His massive ego would never permit that. He is uniquely an Obamanist Who transcends all the previous icons of the Left. When He’s not worshipping Himself, Barack Hussein Obama prays faithfully to the god of this world. No wonder Barry’s decided to diss this year’s National Day of Prayer.