I agree with Religulous viewpoint that thinking the end times in near leads to apathy about the current state of the environment and other things except for of course the soul of the unsaved.
The debate shouldn't be whether prayer does anything or not but should people be allowed to use their beliefs in prayer to affect public opinion. Maybe even more so the question is if 60% of the world is the same religion and the other 40% is a mixture is it better to go with the majority or be...