BTW, as far as atheists claiming they don't need religion to be good, how many of them donate to charity, and in what amount? I haven't seen many hospitals built by atheists to serve the poor and needy. Or even thrift stores.
“I don’t understand the need for “New Atheists” to attack religion. If the rest of us are simply worshipping something that to them doesn’t exist, why care SO much about it?”
Because they are self-centered tyrants who want everyone to bow down to them.
That puzzled me for many years also.
Then I heard a speaker who was as ex-atheist Christian, and he said that there are really very few TRUE athests, most of them are agnostics that hate the idea of an ultimate authority to which we're accountable.
They sense eternity in their hearts, and they also sense their original sin, so they must evangelize, because the only thing that loves company more than misery is guilt.
I prefer to call them "militant secularists."