Historical accuracy has nothing to do with it. Neither DBP nor I even tried to insist that the story is anything other than folklore nor that you were wrong in making reference to it, merely in the accuracy of your interpretation of it. Namely, that the point of the story is one hundred and eighty degrees about face to what you were claiming it was. Does that invalidate your point? No, but these things are just as easy to get right as wrong and I for one felt that needed pointing out.
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.'