Clearly this Bob Marshall is God's punishment on his parents for ever meeting in the first place. Pity the rest of the country has to share that punishment.
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.'