Jerry Coyne on the Banality of New Atheism

Prominent New ('Gnu') atheist Jerry Coyne laments... atheist meetings.

In his post Are there too many atheist meetings? , Coyne complains:

Maybe it's because I've been sick and grumpy, but I've noticed the huge spate of atheist meetings, both past and upcoming, and it's seemed to me that there are just too many.

There are probably more attendees at Mass in my small local parish (six Sunday masses, 500 parishoners for each service) on a single weekend than there are atheists at atheist...