Richard Dawkins said about [[New Atheism]], "[O]ur struggle is not so much an intellectual struggle, as a political one: What are we going to do about it?”.<ref>[http://secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.al/print/ Faithless: The politics of new atheism] by Steven Kettell</ref>
Richard Dawkins said about [[New Atheism]], "[O]ur struggle is not so much an intellectual struggle, as a political one: What are we going to do about it?”.<ref>[http://secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.al/print/ Faithless: The politics of new atheism] by Steven Kettell</ref>
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The [[Shadow To Light blog]] commenting on the new atheists strategy of using ridicule and mockery wrote:
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The [[Shadow To Light blog]] commenting on the new atheist strategy of using ridicule and mockery wrote:
{{Cquote|As we have seen, ridicule and mockery of the religious are key components of the New Atheist Movement. According to [[John W. Loftus|John Loftus]], “It’s not just the so-called “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, [[Bill Maher]], and [[PZ Myers]] who advocate ridicule. I do too (see below). So does [[Richard Carrier]], as does Stephen Law.” The ridicule not only come from the writings of the New Atheists, but they also engage in such tactics with their memes and their YouTube videos.
{{Cquote|As we have seen, ridicule and mockery of the religious are key components of the New Atheist Movement. According to [[John W. Loftus|John Loftus]], “It’s not just the so-called “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, [[Bill Maher]], and [[PZ Myers]] who advocate ridicule. I do too (see below). So does [[Richard Carrier]], as does Stephen Law.” The ridicule not only come from the writings of the New Atheists, but they also engage in such tactics with their memes and their YouTube videos.