It's a crying shame, really, because take the god thing out of the picture and he was a really great guy. One of my closest friends at the time, in fact. We still keep in touch via Facebook.
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.'