I could not have said this better myself. Chris Heard points out one of the problems with recent atheist critiques of religion, namely that they disallow for any type of change or development in a religious belief system. Here is his conclusion:
Change is normal in religions, including Judaism and Christianity. To admit that “we” (in a particular religion) once thought x about a particular topic, but now think y does not invalidate that religion, nor does it demonstrate the non-existence of whatever deity that religion reveres. Change over time in a religion may speak to the character of that religion or its deity, but changes as such can hardly carry the freight that some recent atheists want to put on them.
I recommend reading the whole post HERE.
It seems that we are not alone in recognizing that many of the New Atheists are really Christian fundamentalists without the Christian part.
Have you seen this book? Part of it demonstrates how the new atheists haven’t dealt with nearly any important theologian within the last century.