Because I was entertaining an hypothetical in order to make a point. If you'd kept the context intact, you'd have spotted that. Please don't do that again - altering the meaning of a quote is against the rules.
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.'