Actually, I think he did pray. As far as I've heard, they were in there for some other reason and things went wrong, so since there were Voids everywhere, it- I didn't exactly want the gory details, but I imagine it escalated really, really fast.

Especially when he started destroying things.

Uh- by the way. I can't really... it's probably a really bad idea for me to tell you exactly why, but you should be really glad he did. Michael doesn't bust out fire and brimstone for nothing.