From Christopher Hitchens’ Letters to a Young Contrarian:

"A true believer must believe that he or she is here for a purpose and is an object of real interest to a Supreme Being; he or she must also claim to have at least an inkling of what that Supreme Being desires. I have been called arrogant myself, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator- that’s beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer, let alone the great law-givers and edict-makers of whose “flock” (and what a revealing word that is) they form a part."