What Is The Point Of Prayer?

[CleanShavenJesus]

There is such a thing as "petitionary prayer" but that tends to involve asking God to grant you the strength to do/not do something, strength to endure some kind of misfortune and so on. But prayer does have a real demonstrable physiological effect some kind it's certainly not "imaginary" as you claim. If were just imaginary I should think people would have realized this and stopped doing it thousands of years ago.

If I tell you that there's a bug going around in your office and its first symptom is an upset stomach, you will have a stomach ache in no time, even if you don't have the bug.

Prayer has psychological effects. But there is no God that answers their prayers and makes a physical change. Any changes brought on physically are by the person who prayed...and this is caused by the psychological effects of prayer.