I don't think I'd go so far as to say most people want a god. Many people might want one, while many others might not; leaving a decent percentage who don't generally think of such things as important one way or the other.
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.'
