They are not atheists nor new but anti theists. Worse they have replaced theolog

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/21/reza_aslan_sam_harris_and_new_atheists_arent_new_arent_even_atheists/Agreed. They are not atheists nor new but anti theists.

Worse they have replaced theology with social pseudoscience that differs little from anthropological Puritanism on one end, and numerological pseudoscientific economics on the other end.

Faith in the state, democracy, man and technology to save us from ourselves, and selection bias in science is no different from prior versions of Christianity.

What does suffer is that the academy prospers not the church.