Here is a story that answers this question!
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! What
happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!"-
affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, 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."
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