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 loving a 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 un-kept. 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. "If you KNOW God exists, send this to other people---If you think God doesn't exist, then just delete it!
BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!" Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet."
2007-10-17 06:44:06 · 19 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ignore the delete and send it to others thing as it was an email to me.
2007-10-17 06:44:42 · update #1
What a great post!!!!! Thank you so much. ;-) God bless you with much love in Christ.
2007-10-17 06:57:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Robin Williams is only a very extreme functioning individual, yet he can play an excellent style of extreme roles (One Hour image, Insomnia, and The evening Listener) to call some. On top of that, I study a piece of writing in AARP mag that he has a spouse of 17 years, 2 sons, and a daughter.
2016-10-21 07:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, except that Barbers are not omnipotent and capable of helping everyone as God is. I'm sure barbers would love to be able to help everyone and can't, whereas God CAN help everyone (according to the legend), but won't. Or doesn't exist.
So your analogy fails.
2007-10-17 06:56:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robin Williams didn't write that. Somebody attached his name to it to give it an air of authority. It happens constantly with e-mail forwards.
Tell me where to go to look for God, and I will. I've already been to various Churches and Temples that couldn't help me, and I've read the Bible (and several other religious texts.) The man could easily have told the disheveled person on the street where to find the barber shop, so where can I find God?
2007-10-17 06:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The story is somewhat good but remember about five thousand years ago man wanted free will and disobeyed God. Read that story in Genesis chapter 3.May God Bless you also.
2007-10-17 07:27:04 · answer #5 · answered by preacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm surprised that Robin Williams would come up with something like that. It's a good example of the existence of God.
2007-10-17 06:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What about starving children in Uganda that believe in god? What about people who are murdered and raped, but they have turn to god?
This analogy is not correct. You cannot compare man and god to a customer and barber.
2007-10-17 06:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by Wandering_Man 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you're saying that if sick and abandoned children went to God their sickness would miraculously heal, and their parents would un-abandon them?
What about all the sick people who did turn to God, and are still sick?
That story is comparing apples to oranges.
2007-10-17 06:59:41 · answer #8 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really hard to believe this is a chain email. Hey, can you copy and paste the idiotic one about the student "proving" his atheist profesor has no brain using the professor's logic? You people love these anecdotes that seem like they were written by six year-olds.
2007-10-17 06:50:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's a cute little story, but it's not from Robin Williams. That e-mail's been circulating for years, and his name has only recently been attached to it. I have no idea why, his style of comedy has never been either religious or anti-religious.
2007-10-17 06:48:29 · answer #10 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋