I for one wouldn't follow the creature if it were proven to exist. I would acknowledge that existence, I'd have no choice. But I have far too much human decency than to become one of its footsoldiers.
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.'