A man went to a barbershop to have his haircut and
his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a
good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various
subjects. When they
eventually touched on the subject of God, the
barber
said: "I don't believe that
God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the
customer. "Well, you
just have to go out in the street to realize that
God doesn't exist. Tell
me, if God exists, would
there be so many sick people? Would there be
abandoned children? If
God existed, there would be neither suffering nor
pain. I can't imagine
a loving a God who would allow all of these
things."
The customer
thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
he
didn't want to start an
argument. The barber finished his job and the
customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in
the street with long,
stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He
looked dirty and
unkempt. The customer turned back and entered
the
barber shop again and he
said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can
you say that?" asked
the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a
barber. And I just
worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed.
"Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty
long hair and
untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but
barbers DO exist! What
happens is, people do not come to me." "Exactly!"-
affirmed the customer.
"That's the point!
God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people
don't go to Him and do
not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain
and suffering in the
world.