Do you feel (new) Atheist culture?

[Faith No More]

I guess maybe not as a rule, but there is that personality type who will latch onto hero figures and then ferociously and irrationally defend them against all criticism, and we've probably all seen enough of that online. Dawkins himself appears to me often more heartless than I would consider myself when dealing with believers. In his judgement of people, it seems to me that he leaves little room for the human factor. People who also use his less agreeable traits as an inspiration for their activism will probably tend to come across as hostile.

I think you've touched upon my real criticism with people like Dawkins, which is that they fail to understand that there are human beings behind the beliefs. They like to pompously approach people as if they are simple input/output machines that when given the proper information, they will come to the conclusion that god doesn't exist otherwise they are a defective model. This "every issue is a nail and I'm a hammer" approach belies the way human beings actually form beliefs and doesn't take into account the numerous factors that determine a person's reasoning capability.

For as much as Dawkins loves science, he seems disinterested in the science behind reasoning and how our brains form beliefs.