That's basically what living here in Columbus, OH is like too.

^Yup!

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.

That's because normal working class people don't pray or go to church anymore. I think he's targeting the idle rich with this one.

"normal working class people don't pray or go to church anymore" Huh? Where are you getting this information.

According to Gallup, Americans self-report that 41% of them attend church weekly, and only 8% say never. When looking at actual attendance, that figure changes to 21% attend weekly, and 40% less than once a year, or never.

That's an indicator of how church attendance has dropped in general. I'm not sure what the basis is for saying it increased among the rich but not the working class.

I draw on my experience with working class people over the last decade and a half in four states (Tennessee, New York, Illinois and California). In that time, I've worked as a laborer, a truck driver, a welder, a garbageman, a roofer and I'm now a nurse and the one constant is that hardly anyone I've worked with has been religious. This is especially true of the blue collar guys. A lot of them view sitting in church as laziness and a waste of time. They'd rather be do side work on Sunday to support their families. They also take the lord's name in vain at least once every couple sentences.

I also have a relative who's a Catholic priest. Whenever I see him, he talks about how many Catholic churches are closing because of lack of attendance. There are also less priests and nuns coming in every year. The average age of a Catholic priest right now is something like 60. It used to be 35 or 40. The numbers started dropping long before the pedophilia scandals went mainstream.

Once the Pat Robertson generation dies, I think America will start to become a very secular country.

also, Perry's big prayer rally thing is being called "an utter failure"

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/what-expect-rick-perrys-pr ayer-festival-the-response