It's a little like taking the mythology of Star Wars - which happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, remember - and turning selected bits of it into prophecies for Star Trek.
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.'