All religions are intended for control of the masses through fear. It's what's prevented the ninety-odd percent of the population from eating the rich élite since at least the time of the pharaohs. Xtianity merely perfected the game, to the extent that the masses willingly, even eagerly, put on their own shackles. Now we have mass communication and the internet - aka "where religions come to die" - it's the religions' turn to be afraid, as evidenced by the amount of rabid scorched-earth threats from their mouthpieces.
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.'
