They don't go to Him
A man went to a barber shop to have his hair and his
beard cut as always. He started to have a good conversation
with the barber who attended him.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
Suddenly, they touched the subject of God.
The barber said: "Look man, I don't believe that God exists
as you say."
"Why do you say that?" asked the client.
"Well, it's so easy, you just have to go out in the street
to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God
existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be
abandoned children? If God existed, there would be no
suffering nor pain. I can't think of loving a God who
permits all of these things."
The client stopped for a moment thinking, but he didn't want
to respond so as to cause an argument. The barber finished
his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he
left the barber shop he saw a man in the street with a long
hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since
he had his cut and he looked so untidy).
Then the client again entered the barber shop and he said to
the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How con you say they don't exist?" asked the barber. "Well
I am here and I am a barber."
"No!" the client exclaimed. "They don't exist because if
they did there would be no people with long hair and beard
like that man who walks in the street."
"Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not
come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed the client. "That's the point. God 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."
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