If I needed bread to eat, I would thank the one that gave me bread, and curse the one that offered prayer instead.
What is to stop someone from giving bread AND offering prayer.
Praying is great, but it was never meant as a replacement for doing things (except judgement, I know we are supposed to leave that to God).
I never called it a replacement. for doing things. However for us religious folks, prayer is not doing nothing.
Warbler, if you gave me bread and prayed, that falls squarely in the first category. The second category is for those who could have given me bread but didn’t and only gave me prayer instead.
Those in the second category are self righteous fools.