Clive: My inclusion of the demotivational poster (another Stimbo original, btw) was in direct response to Min's comment immediately preceding it. I suggest you pose your question to him, since he expressed the sentiment. Failing that, try Michael Palin or whoever came up with the quoted line in question. As far as I'm concerned, any perceptions of oppressed martyrdom are entirely in the imagination of the beholder.
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.'