Puts me in mind of Douglas Adams' book Mostly Harmless, described in the cover blurb as "the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers trilogy".
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.'