What, pray for him to repent and turn into a good guy or something? Then what would the fundies do for a scapegoat? They'd surely not start being responsible for their own actions, quite apart from what that would do for their own pet god.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'