Well I think there's some merit to the idea. I'm going to err on the side of a Mafia boss who will disembowel me if I don't keep paying him protection. For added spice, it's the Martian Mafia.
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.'