If you Want God To Help You, Help Yourself Also

Have you heard an Atheists saying to people suffering from depression, "Pray to God, and he will help you?" Could you name a person who is an Atheist? Do you know the word Atheism? For individuals who have no idea yet, they're actually individuals who do not believe in God.

I just wonder whom they believe, the way that they are able to live a life without God. They're also individuals who deserves respect from all of us, this is why I do not want to judge them quickly regarding their beliefs. I would like to know something good on them because people often question their existence.
Not until I have read news entitled, "With No God, Where do Atheists Turn in Times of Crisis?"

I became curious about reading this content authored by Blair Scott. He's actually an American Atheists. I am just curious with their beliefs in life.

Blair Scott said, "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."

Being a Christian, I'm about to disagree with the information he explained because I do believe God will help us cure our diseases and solve our problems in life.

He 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."

After reading what he explained, I paused for a moment and that I was searching for something different about Atheists; something good concerning their beliefs in life.

Until I came up with a concept, that being a Christian, we all know how to hear God; we think that God helps us in times we are in great trouble, in times of crisis and calamities that is happening now a days. However, all of us must help our own life and must do the best to eliminate those problems in life. As you pray, you are also ought to do the very best that you could to help make that prayer possible. It will be important sometimes to live life practically. Do not wait for God to answer all your prayers, do something! Think of this proverb in life that we all need to learn, "God helps those who help themselves."