The progressive lawmaker began his prayer using explicitly Christian language, acknowledging God's "sacred supremacy," noting that, without His "favor and forbearance, we enter this new year relying dangerously on our own fallible nature."

Cleaver went on to reference the Old Testament passage of Numbers 6:24-26, praying, "May the God who created the world and everything in it bless us and keep us. May the Lord make His face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. May the Lord lift up the light of His countenance on us and give us peace: peace in our families, peace across this land, and — dare I ask, O Lord — peace even in this chamber, now and evermore."

It was at that point that the Democrat's prayer took a very odd turn.

First, Cleaver gave credit not only to the Christian God, but to countless other deities to whom people of other faiths pray. He credited "Brahma," a four-faced Hindu deity, as well as "'god' known by many names by many different faiths."

"Amen and awoman," he closed, bizarrely.

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