I actually think he sees prayer as an insult and even a threat.
Of course he does. Like most Leftists, any entity which can rob them of even a scintilla of control, spritual, financial, knowledge, liberty...they, being the Statists that they are, cannot bear something or someone else stealing what they view as theirs to control.
I despise those people, and they are all like him.
It is why they hate the family, religion, etc, and do all in their power to destroy those and replace them with their own versions that they can control.