[The man and the barber:: reads :: you :: SHADOWED]
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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 so."
"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 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 prevent 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 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 come 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 beards 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."