How to Change God's Mind

"I don't think prayer changes God's mind in the way that we mean when we say change God's mind," he says. "If there's a God, a creator, then why am I going to be in the driver's seat if I can let him be in the drivers' seat?" He would also pray in the Garden of Gethsemane: Why would God want his son to be brutally murdered? 'Why wouldn't God want my parents to stay together?'"