Pay the neighbor.

Sounds like a good neighbor. Return the favor in some way and be a good neighbor.

I would do something nice for the neighbor-his generousity should be rewarded.

Sigh.

Like the person that had a sick kid. The doctor gave them medicine. Kid got better. Parent thanked her god instead of the doctor.

Or the lady who’s sister (or some relative) who died in a house fire, but praised her god because a bible survived.

My example being an athlete is when professional athletes do something special, grab their crotches in arogance and then praise god for their sports blessings.

This goes in my pet peeve of 'god helped me win against so-and-so'....not exactly, but it rubs me the wrong way...first of all, if you are able to plow your own driveway, maybe you shouldn't take advantage of your position and have someone else do it...would his neighbor have done it if he wasn't the pastor? But really, don't let someone else do something you can do yourself, unless you are going to reciprocate, ya lazy sod!...hehe

lol Same reaction as yours. That kind neighbor should be made aware.

All the good in a christian's life comes from god.

All the trouble and grief in a christians life comes from satan, or foul 'non-believers', of from the sinful christian himself.

That keeps christians firmly in their place. As sinners who need god's blessing to avoid hell, they have to be GOOD little christians and grovel. And pay, of course - pay LOTS.

But then you get this nonsense. A neighbour is a good man, and instead of seeing where the gratitude should properly lie, the christian insists on giving god credit for his neighbour's decency.

It's like someone doing you a favour, and your response being, 'You've done that for me? Good. I'll just go and thank my dog.'

The problem is that the truly religious don't even REALISE they're being arseholes.

What a slap in his neighbor's face. I don't doubt that he thanked the neighbor profusely and I would hope he didn't regale the neighbor with a lot of god is good crap, thus lessening his generosity. Nonetheless, it is aggravating when they use it in telling their story. It is belittling.

The complete lack of gratitude to his neighbor is disgusting. What's more, it's not even logical when Christians make such statements: If God imbued us with that all-important free will, how is God then the one to praise when the neighbor uses said free will to do something generous? God, by the very nature of that free will, necessarily has nothing to do with what actions we take and isn't responsible for the kindness the neighbor proffered.

I thought Christians preferred to suffer...

@evergreen
Not being used to snow my immediate vision was of a driveway plowed ready for harrowing though round here the tendency is just to go into no till without ploughing.
I visualised your nephew in his car navigating his driveway. It must make for a bumpy ride if the driveway is like a series of speed humps! Lol