I often wonder if kids get to a certain point where they only pretend to believe in Santa because they don't want to spoil the magic for their obviously credulous parents. I don't remember ever acting like that as a child, but then half the time I struggle to remember what I did last week.
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.'