The problem I've found with modern atheism is that it is oppositional in form.
George Hegel popularized a method of argumentation in which one manufactures dissent by holding paradoxes at the foundation of reason and negations at the surface. When one employs Hegelian Dialectics, one can turn minor differences into major conflicts.
You will see modern thinkers employing this method in all sorts of ways. Atheism, Antifa, and self-proclaimed anti-racist movements all employ the same game with paradoxes and negations at the basis of their system of reason.
Unfortunately, people who want to defend against new think are driven into corners, because attempts to talk about affirmation religion and politics get drawn into the conflicts manufactured by the proponents of new think.