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I agree this is a reasonable imperative to convince people of! Religious positions which insist on only prayer without action do exist, but I think they're probably the minority of religious positions.

I do think some of the people who are "just" praying for Japan but not donating significant (or perhaps any) time and money to the cause are rather in the position of the parents who pray because they can't afford healthcare. Most of us can't do much to help Japan; there are plenty of people who really don't have anything spare to give to charity, or whose charity budget is already fully committed to other causes. Even if you can afford to give $1000, that can feel like a pretty small response to billions of dollars of damage, and a nearly irrelevant response to human suffering.

Absolutely agree that people who do choose to pray shouldn't do so in an intrusive way, or imply that non-theists are morally inferior for not responding in this way.