That's what I mean - the clock itself wouldn't register the time; merely happen to agree with it. Similarly with the bible - I don't go around killing and stealing and whatever, but not because the bible tells me not to. The book simply happens to coincide with my personal morality on those points. The points of disagreement far, far outweigh the points of accord, and any such agreement is largely accidental.
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.'