I read an article recently about a little four-year-old girl who hanged herself because she wanted to see her daddy in heaven. Thankfully a rare and extreme case, and I hope apocryphal, but it illustrates the fine membrane between a comforting desire for a happy conscience-salving life and an inimical one through ignorance.
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.'
