God Will Help You When You Help Yourself

Have you ever heard an Atheists telling people troubled with depression, "Pray to God, and that he will help you?" Do you know somebody that is an Atheist? Are you aware what Atheism means? For individuals who don't know yet, they're actually people who don't believe in God.

I simply thought just how do they have the ability to enjoy life without God and who they believe in. I wouldn't want to judge them since they are also individuals who deserve to be respected. I would like to find out about Atheism because people often judge them immediately before knowing who they may be and why they exist.
Not until I have read a short article about, "With No God, Where do Atheists Turn in Times of Crisis?"

The article author of this article was Blair Scott. I became interested with what he is saying in the article. He's actually an American Atheists. I wish to find out more about what truly they believe in.

Blair Scott mentioned, "Prayer and gods do not cure our diseases or solve problems during times of crisis. Where prayer and faith help is by calming the fears people have because prayer acts as a form of meditation and can have a therapeutic influence (even a placebo effect). Prayer and faith may give people the courage and emotional strength to continue, but they do not solve the problems that people face."
"… God and prayer do not cure clinical depression. Clinical depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain that prayer cannot cure."

I disagree to his very own viewpoint. I'm born being a Christian, I absolutely believe God helps us heal our diseases and solve our problems we have in life.

Blair added, "When you hear about people that were praying to a god during a time of crisis it is important to pay attention to their story. Often you will find that those that were actively praying during a crisis were in a stagnant mode. They were hiding under a desk (as we witnessed at Columbine) or were hiding in a basement or bathroom (such as in tornado activity) or were doing something else that left them inactive during the crisis. Those that were taking action talk about thanking their god after-the-fact. The atheists, on the other hand, thank the firefighters, police officers, rescuers, medical doctors, etc."

I paused for a moment, and that I would like to understand something good from American Atheist.

I came up with a thought. As being a Christian, we know how to hear the voice of God; thus, God helps us when we are having difficulties, hurting and in time of crisis that is happening in life. But what individuals must do is help themselves also. Once we pray, we should do something also to help ourself with the problems we have. It is recommended sometimes to live on a practical life. We must not wait for an answered prayer from God. As we pray, do something to make that prayer possible to happen. As what this effective proverb is wanting to inform everyone that, "God helps people who help themselves."