I don't care what she believed nor how sincerely she believed it. People were made to suffer simply in order to aggrandise this woman. Under any other circumstances, she would be regarded as an inhuman monster. Paint a crucifix on her and suddenly she's a saint.
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.'