you can see where the rest of this sentence is going,Sure. Obviously you're not the only person to grapple with that one.
But here's a pragmatic idea for you: if there is no God and you pray to him(/her/it/whatever) then what harm done? Whereas if there is a God and you deliberately turn away, what harm done?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
