Doesn't matter. It's in the book, whether you believe it or not. Which comes under the part where I said it depends on "how literally we're meant to take it".
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.'