A rabbi and soap maker went for a walk together.
The soap maker had some negative things to say about religion: “What good is religion? Just look around you. What do you see? Trouble, misery, wars – even after all these years and years of preaching and teaching about goodness, truth, peace. What good is religion with all its prayers and sermons if all this evil still exists?”
The rabbi kept quiet as they continued their walk. Then they noticed a child playing in the gutter. The child was just filthy with dirt and mud.
The rabbi said to the soap maker: “Look at this child! Now you say that soap makes people clean, but what good is it? With all the soap in the world this child is still dirty. What good is soap after all?”
The soap maker immediately answered him: “But rabbi, soap can’t do its job if it isn’t used!”
The rabbi said, “The same is true with religion.”
Thanks to Jim Davis for this story. Thanks to Unsplash and Andrej Lisakov for the photo.
Have YOU been using the Bible, religion and prayer to “clean up YOUR act?”
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