Yes and especially yes, respectively. The pope doesn't even have an excuse, because it's his job. Either he truly believes in fairytale nonsense, making him an idiot, or he doesn't and he's getting paid for a job he knows is a lie.
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.'
