I don't intend to argue the point with you. I shall leave it to the rest of the audience to determine the character of DP's words, now the full context is restored.
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.'