AE asks if punditry is better than prayer.
It all depends on what you do with and after your prayer or your punditry. One can be just as docile after offering a few opinions (which may not be that valuable anyway) as one can after praying for ‘external’ intervention.
At a guess I would say a lot religious traditions probably encourage some action to accompany a prayer. So praying for world peace will probably involve the religious individual concerned putting him or herself in the mix.
