Prayer doesn't work and we should drop the ridiculous notion that people can't do anything amazing without some invisible entity's help. The human race has talked itself into believing it is helpless - this is a very bad thing.
Too often have I found people incapable of accepting full responsibility for their actions. It is a system of avoidance that, both secular and non tend to share. Whether it is Satan, or another person...onky we have full autonomy over our actions.
Even though we vary considerably in our skills and capabilities and in many cases it is appropriate for some to have more financial reward than others, we are all human and have equal fundamental value.
The golden rule may be an OK place to start, but finding out how others really want to be treated takes away any questions. They may want a hand to hold, a companion to talk to, or maybe they just want to be left alone. The only way to know for sure is to talk to them.
Compassion is the ability to be different from another, and still understand that the other exists. If each of us can balance maintaining the self, and being open to those different from us, our world would be a much better place.
A principal cause of aggression in the world is found in differing value systems that, either through religious, ideological or nationalistic doctrine, are rigid, intolerant and justify aggression towards those who do not adhere to such value systems.
Every time humans have questions this method is used to solve them. If we don't know, we don't know but instead of making up the answer we use this method to reach a conclusion/answer.