It's like when some people claim that magicians like Derren Brown really do have magical powers, despite what they themselves say. Partly because it's easier to rationalise supernatural abilities than to admit that they make careers out of fooling grown adults. The fact that 100% of them insist on doing it the hard way doesn't seem to faze anyone.
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.'