Aha - you fell into my trap! Sorry Rev, it wasn't actually Gert Fröbe who said that line: his mouth formed the shape of the words, but Gert himself could hardly speak a word of English and then only in a practically impenetrable accent. So the director, Guy Hamilton, asked him to give a faster delivery of his lines which were then dubbed over by another actor. So the voice you hear in the film belongs to actor Michael Collins!
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.'