Via Sullivan, I found this chart at Secular Right analyzing people’s political party identification and tendency toward prayer:

One commenter ran the *staggering* numbers:

I just ran some numbers. Allowing for the persistent petitioners who pester him/her/it several times a day, we can assume it averages well over 200M prayers a day. Assuming an average length of a prayer at one minute, that means it averages processing about 139K simultaneous prayers 24/7/365 just on the American circuit. When one considers the peaks around bedtimes, disasters, and final exams, that would take some serious bandwidth, to say nothing of multitasking processing power.

All it leads me to think is that it certainly explains the wait times on the prayer line:

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