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what really is the rift that divides atheists?

Just the other day, NPR pub­lished an arti­cle that got quite a bit of atten­tion on Face­book: A Bit­ter Rift Divides Athe­ists. Basi­cally, it talks about the dif­fer­ence between “new athe­ism” of peo­ple like Richard Dawkins and Christo­pher Hitchens — “a more aggres­sive, often belit­tling pos­ture toward reli­gious believ­ers,” and more tol­er­ant forms of athe­ism.