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The Baffler publishes\xa0a long article\xa0against \u201cidiot\u201d New Atheists. It\u2019s interesting only in the context of so many\xa0similar articles, and an inability to imagine the opposite opinion showing up in an equally fashionable publication. New Atheism has lost its battle for the cultural high ground. r/atheism will shamble on as some sort of undead abomination, chanting \u201cBRAAAAAAIIINSSSS\u2026are what fundies don\u2019t have\u201d as the living run away shrieking. But everyone else has long since passed them by.

The New Atheists accomplished the seemingly impossible task of alienating a society that agreed with them about everything. The Baffler-journalists of the world don\u2019t believe in God. They don\u2019t disagree that religion contributes to homophobia, transphobia, and the election of some awful politicians \u2013 and these issues have only grown more visible in the decade or so since New Atheism\u2019s apogee. And yet in the bubble where nobody believes in God and everyone worries full-time about sexual minorities and Trump, you get less grief for being a Catholic than a Dawkins fan. When Trump wins an election on the back of evangelicals, and the alt-right is shouting \u201cDEUS VULT\u201d and demanding \u201cthrone and altar conservativism\u201d, the\xa0real\xa0scandal is rumors that some New Atheist might be reading /pol/. How did the New Atheists become so loathed so quickly?