Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather then sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
From: a program at Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture on "Moral Emancipation":
Faith, Culture, Skepticism, and the “New Atheism”
--Patrick Flynn, Benedictine University
[In the wake of 9-11, five best-selling authors became known as New Atheists and their arguments, movement, the New Atheism. It is my contention that there is much epistemologically objectionable with these highly equivocal and misleading New Atheist arguments.]