The Barber and the Customer.

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 customer.

“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 neither suffering nor pain. I can’t think of loving a God who permits all of these things.”

The customer 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 Customer went out of the shop. Just after he left the barber shop he saw a man walking down the street with a long hair and beard (it seemed that it had been a long time since he had his cut).

Then the customer again entered the barber shop as the barber was sweeping up: “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 customer 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 customer. “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.”