good article, the problem with most people criticising religion is that they haven't studied philosophy. Their criticism most often is very basic and not new at all and has been refuted most probably hundreds of years ago. New atheists like Richard Dawkins are in fact not very clever people. They would fail in a debate with someone who has actually studied theology or philosophy. There are valid arguments against religion, but most people don't actually put in effort to get there. one book that in fact demolishes people like dawkins is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933771364/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1TGKMQB9H0A96&coliid=IP3GRNM9SO39J