A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut 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! " answered the barber.
"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."