the barber's client

[Guest guest]

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 can you say they don't exist?" asked the barber. "I am a

barber and here I am." "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."