I found this "atheist prayer" via Friendly Atheist. I enjoy Friendly Atheist, but I wanted to point out an issue with this post.
"Our brains, which art in our heads, treasured be thy names. Thy reasoning come. The best you can do be done on earth as it is. Give us this day new insight to resolve conflicts and ease pain. And lead us not into supernatural explanations, deliver us from denial of logic. For thine is the kingdom of reason, and even though thy powers are limited, and you’re not always glorious, you are the best evolutionary adaptation we have for helping this earth now and forever and ever. So be it. "
I suppose this is meant as harmless humor, and I probably wouldn't flip out if it had been entitled the Atheist Credo or something similar. Let's not kid ourselves though. Equivocation is one of the main ways the un-religious are attacked today. Sam Harris absolutely called this one right. To call the extreme skepticism of the possibility of the existance of a god on the same plane as faith is one of the more popular parlor tricks of the faithful today. To call acceptance of empirical evidence a "kind of faith" turns my FlipOut dial up to 11. The faithful are having enough of a hayday with ridiculous equivocation arguments as it is. Do we really need to add ammunition by creating secular versions of old catechisms? I think not.
Main Entry:
1prayer 
Pronunciation:
\ˈprer\
Function:
noun
Usage:
often attributive
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French priere, praiere, preiere, from Medieval Latin precaria, from Latin, feminine of precarius obtained by entreaty, from prec-, prex
Date:
14th century
1 a (1): an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought <said a prayer for the success of the voyage>
Yeah, I think I'll abstain from using this term even in jest, lest it be misconstrued.