Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.
There's no way up but down.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
Christians have no business moping around.