When he gets home hit him on the head -hard- with the Bible and tell him to pray for the pain to go away....assuming it doesn't, you'll have prooved your point that praying does not always deliver short term comfort.

<font color=blue> "Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire, in prisioned by the thought of what to do? Is it any wonder that my joke's a laugh, and the joke's on you." Blue Oyster Cult </font color=blue>