Ah, the joys of enforced prayer. I live in England, I was raised Irish Catholic and escaped, and I have serious issues with organised religion. But I didn't protest, I didn't make a big deal, I just stood there quietly and refused to put my head down. When they tried to make me, I pointed out that they were asking me to lie, and they were telling me that their beliefs weren't something people actually believed in, just something people pretended for five minutes a day.

Got so many detentions for that.

And the thing is - these people weren't the kind who were going to church on Sundays. (Excluding the Religious Education teacher who marked you down for not believing in her God.) Several of them were divorced, or living with someone before marriage, definitely not following all the rules of what they claimed as their god. So I always suspected it was nothing to do with God and everything to do with "Shut up little child, do this pointless exercise just to prove you're willing to unquestioningly go along with the herd."

I tend to feel that's part of the objection here - they feel that people aren't going along with the herd. (Even if it's possible they are, it's just they're going along with their community's default, not the biggest community.)