Just about every form of over-the-counter medication, as well as many prescribed ones, is designed to treat the symptoms of a condition instead of its cause. Whether a headache or a virus, we take something that will remove the experience of feeling them while the body tries to repair itself. The broken leg analogy still stands (as it were).
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.'