I left the church for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that I realised God does not exist

SHOOT: A great way to find out that God doesn't exist is to spend a few years really looking for him, and researching the bible. Seems to be most believers have incomplete information [virtually no research or analysis] and are filling in the dots in their minds eye.

clipped from www.sowetan.co.za An Eastern Cape candidate judge has caused a stir before the Judicial Services Commission - by telling members he left priesthood for the law because he concluded there is no God. Senior Counsel Torquil Paterson told the JSC: “I left the church for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that I realised God does not exist. I am an atheist”. Paterson, whose lengthy theological studies included a stint at Oxford University, explained he had eventually come to the conclusion that “all language of God is meaningless”. Justice Minister Jeff Radebe was left perplexed and asked: “So what you read in the Bible about the beginning does not exist? You do not believe that we were created in the image of God?” “Minister you may believe that, I don’t,” Patterson responded. Radebe insisted, to rare laughter at the JSC ’s interviews of aspirant judges: “If God does not exist, are you a materialist, a communist, a Marxist?”