Atheists Don't Exist

                             Author Unknown



               A Christian  man went to a  barbershop to have  his hair cut
          and his beard trimmed.

               As the  barber began to  work, they began conversing.   Both
          men  enjoyed the  exchange.   They talked  about many  things and
          covered various subjects.

               When the customer eventually touched on the subject of  God,
          the barber said, "I don't believe that God exists."

               "Oh really," the Christian replied.  Why do you say that?"

               "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that
          God doesn't exist.   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
          imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.

               The  customer  kept his  thoughts  to  himself to  avoid  an
          argument.

               The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

               Just as he left the barbershop,  he saw a man in the  street
          with long, stringy, filthy 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?"  replied  the  barber  with  some
          surprise.   "I am here  and I am  a barber  and I just  worked on
          you."

               "No,"  the  Christian  challenged.    "Barbers  don't  exist
          because if  they did, there  would be  no people with  dirty long
          hair  and untrimmed  beards,  like that  man  outside," he  said;
          pointing at the window of the shop.

               "Ah,  but barbers  DO exist,"  answered  the barber.   "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 or Him.  That's  why there's so much pain and  suffering
          in the world."


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