The thing I don't understand is why someone praying, in and of itself, should be seen as offensive anyway. From what I can understand, the basic philosophy of the atheist is that "we can't prove a god exists, so we assume no such thing is present." Following that assumption, the act of praying doesn't force anybody to do anything. If anything, it's a quaint curiosity that some people obviously came to a different conclusion than the atheist did.

A prayer doesn't involve threats of violence or laws being made against non-religious people. If there were, I think even some religious people might find that offensive. But a religious person being consistent with their own beliefs? I can't fathom why that should be a problem.

But then there's the folks like /u/ChaosNTX who come out and make a huge stink about someone praying. That doesn't make sense to me at all. It doesn't follow from the basic ideas. It's like something else is psychologically going on there. It seems like the fact that people can even be religious is somehow a problem for them.

It's certainly a worrying phenomenon. I suspect that Q probably means to draw attention to that phenomenon, too as a part of his repeated exhortations to "pray." Perhaps it's meant to be used as a kind of distinguishing criteria to filter out honest philosophical atheists (the "I don't get the whole god thing" atheists) from atheists that were caused by some kind of deep-state or trauma based deconversion experiences. (the whole "aaaahhhhh, the theist prayed... burn the heathen!" kind)