"But asking an Atheist to pray is kinda like forbidding a Christian to pray."

I reckon that would be the best way you get people praying. Maybe they should try it and see what happened.

Here is the link to a piece by Steve Earle in what is niow for me yesterday's Guardian.

And here is a link to Tikkun, the San Francisco Jewish magazine in which it first appeared - which looks pretty good.