It's more of a symbolic gesture than anything. Whether or not the original tweet meant that Pratt was literally praying and thought the power of god could help or just meant it symbolically is irrelevant.
The point is that a bunch of morons, and obviously not just on twitter, are under the misguided impression that wishing thoughts and prayers for someone who has a heart attack is the same thing as politicians and NRA members wishing thoughts and prayers to victims of gun violence.
In one case, the thoughts and prayers are literally all a person can do. Either before or after the incident, nothing Chris Pratt could or should ever do was going to help Kevin Smith. Wishing him well is the extent of his ability to help.
In another case thoughts and prayers are a callous and self serving hollow message that provides literally zero support. All the while ignoring the fact that there are tangible ways that gun violence and the florida tragedy, and others like it, could actually be avoided with real action and wishing thoughts and prayers is just about the most insulting thing anyone could do, considering the people doing it are at least partly responsible for the tragedy happening in the first place due to their support for guns and being in the pocket of the NRA and gun manufacturers.
But yeah, pretty much exactly the same when you think about it.
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