> I still fail to see why this was even a point. As far as I know, Jews don't pray toward Jerusalem, either.

And unless a good number of people pray facing straight in to the ground, neither does anyone else. The world isn't as flat as it used to be. To be completely accurate we should make praying an online thing, where all prayers are wired directly to your chosen worship site, then beamed up in to space. I think I'll choose Wendy's as my site, and pray for a biggie sized number two. Even then there could be problems though. People would be trying to pray to Allah, but they wouldn't understand the ballot and would instead end up praying to Jesus, and then where would we be? In a big mess, that's where. God would be sitting up in heaven trying to fullfil prayers, but he wouldn't know who prayed to him on purpose or who meant to but didn't, and he'd have to have his angels count and recount... I guess the system we have now will have to stay.