This is going to be a very controversial post but I do hope we will be able to dialog in a spirit of respect and love.
As I made it clear at other places, I have a huge respect for many modern and past atheistic philosophers such as Nietzche, Sartre, Camus, Macky or Comte-Sponville.
They are or were great and honest thinkers having had a tremendous contribution to the advancement of philosophy.
I do, however, strongly despise the New Atheists (like Denett) who are to atheism what fundamentalism is to Christianity: a shame and an embarrassment.
The New Atheists (also called anti-theists or militant atheists) are a particular group of atheists who advocate the use of emotional bullying, mockery and ridicule towards every religious believer. I think we have strong grounds for concluding they are a hate group with a far right ideology. We also have good evidence that they are people who have had a very bad (often traumatic) experience with religious fundamentalists.
Did you yourself had interactions with them?