What do you do when expected to participate in public religious ceremonies such as prayer?
Since I live in a largely secular society I've not really be expected to participate in prayer since I left school. There's irony for you I describe Britain as largely secular but state schools expect pupils to take part in an act of collective worship of a broadly Christian nature. I heard people try to resolve this paradox by suggesting that this watered down religion in schools acts as a form of inoculation against the more harmful version of the virus. However these days I'm happy to participate in religious ceremonies by choice according to a variety of different customs and attempt to do so respectfully. I think Diwali might be my favourite.
As Hitchens wrote, when the Church is secure in its officially sponsored place, it doesn't need to aggressively proselytize, whereas the "free market" of somewhere like the USA forces various religions to compete for worshipers and their contributions. Hence British society has much less overt religious display than American, and yet there is an established church... although I understand evangelicals are making greater efforts in Britain now as well.