Ultimately, it doesn't matter. In GC's head, it's all about an ideological war between the Church and the "secular world" - a war that will be decided on how many brownie point each side can rack up.
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.'