Secularism, at its absolute best, comprises an unrelenting commitment to judicious and self-correcting critique. … Secularism's job consists of criticizing all collective representations. Its analytical energies should be inflicted on any type of mass belief or empowered orthodoxy, whether it is religious, political, scientific, aesthetic, and so on. … Secularism, as we envision it, is elitist and heretical by nature. When it aspires to become a popular movement, an orthodoxy, or the predicate of a nation-state, it betrays itself.

p. 7 - The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)