Was it necessary for a man to die for those things you can "totally see" - ie imagine? Is being "a thug and an asshole" punishable by death?
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.'