Do Barbers Exist?

Does God Exist?
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A boy in my classroom one time looked at me and said, "I do not believe in God!".  I told him, "I wish I had your faith, but I do believe God exists."


I cannot look at the magic of this world, a DNA Helix, consider how atoms work, feel the love of my wife and believe God does not exist.  It still takes faith, and therefore, I think it takes greater faith to believe all the world around us just somehow came together.  I could dismantle an old gear bound watch, taking completely apart, put it in a paper bag and shake it 1000 years, and it still would be parts to a watch.  God help that boy that said he was an atheist.


Now, about the barbers, do they exist?


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.

When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that 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 all of 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 barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again 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! Guess 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."

- Author Unknown

Thanks be to God

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