Prayer is immoral

I have just been alerted to this article. Well, the Harvard Prayer Experiment proved that prayer has no effect whatsoever (except perhaps a negative one). I would like to explain here why, furthermore, prayer is immoral:

• To pray is to disrespect scientific method and delude yourself that someone (or something) is listening to you, when actually you have absolutely no reason to suppose that this is the case and every reason to suppose it is not.
• It is debasing to beg for things instead of simply hope, or (much better) take action yourself to bring them about.
• While you supplicate yourself speaking to empty space you waste time which you could be spending making an actual practical difference to people’s lives.
• It is unhealthy to speak to imaginary beings and wish for replies that never come. You might even start to imagine you’re hearing them.

Simply consider how the thousands of hours people spend on their knees could be put to practical use actually helping people, and you will see the obvious truth of what I say.