It's like the Judas thing, which entered into culture as the ultimate in betrayal - and by a character conveniently named for a whole people - yet was allegedly all part of the plan. Or to put it another way: plot hole.
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.'
