"I don't need God; I can handle things myself!"  Occasionally I am confronted with those words.  "Really?" I often say, giving me a moment to think before I respond.  Though I've never actually said it, "I've often wanted to respond: "You are a most unusual individual.  In fact, you are so rare a specimen that you should be the subject of study by the scientists of our day, and certainly, the theologians, who need to know how someone can be so secure, so confident of himself or herself, so absolute.  They need to know what makes you different from all the other creatures which fill the churches of the world, who pray to the Almighty, who christen babies and bury their dead with the hope of eternity."