Pastors say a lot of things. It's what they're paid for. If one was to tell me it gets dark at night, I'd check with my own eyes before automatically taking their word as fact.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'