New Atheism is a FAD says one of its prophets

“The picture of religion that emerges from New Atheism is a caricature and both misrepresents and underestimates its real character”. Caspar Melville Beyond New Atheism, in the Guardian

Caspar Melville, a defender of New Atheism (at least up until yesterday) seems to suggest that this movement is a FAD (my own interpretation) and might have reached its end of the road and now it is time to move beyond New Atheism. In this article he seems to suggest that New Atheism, and its prophets (where he is one among them), are wrong in a lot of things. He is not shy to also admit that there is (or there was?) an economic benefit for this a-religious movement (they did not manage to build themselves an equivalent to a ‘Vatican state’ yet). It is no doubt that the High Priest Dawkins has also pocketed a small fortune from this enterprise.

I wonder how will this ‘beyond New Atheism’ look like? Suggestions please.

Update:
Mark Vernon attended the event Caspar Melville mentions in his article wrote a post about it on his blog. Not sure what agenda was/is beyond this apparent ‘shift’?

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Atheism the new Fundamentalism Intelligence Squared video debate

Last week Intelligence Squared held this debate on whether the form of atheism represented by among others A.C. Grayling and Richard Dawkins is a New Fundamentalism.

You can watch in full here:

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/iq2-video/2009/atheism-is-the-new-fundamentalism

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