Ray Cumfart likens it to him selling you a parachute so that you are able to survive a doomed aeroplane; except what he isn't telling you is that he hasn't got a chute to sell and the plane's fine anyway.
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.'