The Good Shepherd, isn't?

From Christopher Hitchens, quoted in the New York Times:

Shepherds don’t look after sheep because they love them — although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That’s much more like the priesthood as I know it.

The quotation is from an account of a debate between Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe on the subject, "Is religion good for the world?"  It's worth a read.