Debate over dominant cultural religion aside, what are the true facts regarding prayer in the first place?  Why isn't anyone asking this question?   Fact is, double-blind studies with control groups have been conducted on the efficacy of prayer and the results show that prayer is little more useful than an act of meditation or practice of yoga.   Google "Harvard prayer studies."   Those who insist that one religion holds precedence over another in our democratic republic and claim that others who disagree are "bigoted"    need to look to theocracies like Iran for guidance in these matters.   The last time Christianity was allowed to dominate government policy it set Western civilization  back by  a thousand years.   Read up on  what theocrats did to dissenters and early scientists looking for answers based on evidence rather than the dominate superstition of the day.   The separation of church and state is meant to keep this from ever happening again.   In some states it already is.