Sociologist Stephen LeDrew on the Rift in the Atheism Movement

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7. Sounds like this guy is doing a cheap cash-in...

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]We are often our own worst critics, what do you think some of the criticisms of your book might be?

I’ve already heard some criticisms from academic colleagues. I think one thing that will come up is the question of what evidence I have to support my arguments about the divisions within the atheist movement. I admit that I don’t have a lot of numbers or any large-scale surveys to back this up, but really I’m just trying to identify the major goals and sets of ideas that are shaping the movement, and I’m confident that I’ve done that.

So he has little to no evidence of this supposed rift, and in addition, I would like to know what he is using as evidence for his criticism of so call "New Atheism".