If I recall correctly, I think the context is that indoctrinating someone at such a young and impressionable age into magical thinking potentially harms their critical thinking skills. Something like that anyway. It would be helpful to have the text of what he wrote to hand.
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.'
