Is God There?

[Guest guest]

Kindle Your Spirit

IS GOD THERE?

A man went to a barbershop 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 on 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

neither suffering nor pain. I can't think of a God who permits all of these

things."

The client heard it but kept quiet. The barber finished his job and the client

went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, 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). The client entered the barbershop

again and 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 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."

 

Volume - 2 Issue - 15

Radiosai Journal - PSN 2004

http://www.radiosai.org/Journals/Vol_02/15Aug01/04_Kindle_Your_Spirit/spirit.htm