That's a very good point. If you don't even know what the character is supposed to be, all claims about what it can and can't do go straight down the pan. What makes it hilariously worse is that these same people will then take great delight in telling you what their god thinks.
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.'