Does God Exist ?

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a conversation.They
talked about various subjects. When they eventually touched on the
subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God
exists, 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 imagine a loving God who would allow these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't
want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the
customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barber shop, he saw a man in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and
unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop and he
said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I
am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they
did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed
beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come
to me."

"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!

That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him
for help.

That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."