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Supposing that you lived in a universe where you could pray for and would then always receive infallible instruction, it would be rational to pray.
If it leads to winning more than other possibilities, it's rational to do it. If your utility function values pretending to be stupid so you'll be well-liked by idiots, that is winning.
I'm talking about the real world, not an imaginary one. You can make up imaginary worlds to come up with a counterexample to any generalisation you hear, but it amounts to saying "Suppose that were false? Then it would be false!"