I agree. And beyond this a misunderstanding of how prayer (magick) works can cause problems, such as involving lust for results.
For example, a Christian company a friend of mine works at have a prayer meeting every morning. They beg for business success mostly, but when one of their staff had issues with alcoholism, they started praying for him every morning, “please help Bob get better”, over and over…
So Bob ended up in rehab, failed rehab twice, his marriage fell apart and he started to get very sick… and only started getting better when he left the company and they stopped praying for him.
Why? Because effectively every day they thought very hard about how bad Bob’s state was and their energy was fully focused on his lack and his disease: they basically cursed him and prevented his recovery. If they had just tweaked the intention to “Thank you for healing Bob! he is whole and well in your might” he probably would have done a lot better sooner and not had to leave.
It’s almost like somehow he know these people were bad for him and he got himself out.
It’s my opinion that the root of all evil is plain stupidity. The short sightedness of the disconnected, the ignorant, the lazy, the irresponsible and the assumptive. And all these are symptoms that stem from some form of a lack of understanding even if that’s at a very deep fundamental level. Hence, know thyself.