It's the same with Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris and the like. The Beeb has been falling over itself to erase them from history. There were calls for Savile to be stripped od his knighthood - degradation - despite the fact that he stopped being a knight the moment he died. Many people even wanted him exhumed for some ghoulish reason. Not at all defending their actions, but for fuck's sake some people need to get some proportion.
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.'