I read the Immanence Frame link and can see glimpses of legitimate criticism of some aspects of “New Atheism” vis-a-vis Dawkins, Hitchens, et al. But by and large it’s just another anti-atheism polemic. Well written and all but very evangelical in its on right. Especially the final paragraph, wow. Quite a frail conclusion.

There’s entirely too much absolutism going on and the binaristic thing is not helping.

When I was in religions I saw the same things I see now, but then I saw them as if through a fog and dense cloud cover. Now I see them clearly under a calm sky. I stopped god-calling and started calling-myself-out. I see a lot of that same honesty in spiritual progressives and other religion-invested people. The minor difference is I no longer have a need for a religion to define my identity or a higher power and others seem to need to even if they don’t actually use either. All fine with me so long as I get some space too; I see you but do you see me?

Dominated by suffering, fear of death, and insecurity, man came under the power of an instinct for SELF-protection and SELF-preservation. He began to struggle for his OWN survival, at the expense of his neighbor, even if this survival could be only temporary (and therefore illusory), since “death reigned from Adam to Moses, even upon those who did not sin as Adam did” (Rom. 5:14). –Orthodox theologian John Meyendorff

Much blood may have been spilled in the conduct of sectarian religious wars and the persecution of “heretics”; but atheistic Communism racked up a very impressive death toll, also.