The bad of New Atheism: Children playing with memetic weapons, with the safety off.

• It's good at diagnosing problems with existing institutions, bad at understanding people's non-rational but deeply-rooted needs that are currently satisfied by religion.
• It has failed to create even remotely plausible replacement institutions, due to this lack of understanding.
• It is fundamentally parochial: it originated from, and continues to narrowmindedly focus on, the internal life of the intellectual 1%, with little understanding or interest in the other 99% of the bell curve.