Hmm …

… What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything - Salon.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I agree that abolishing religion won't fix anything, but the logic on display at the beginning is peculiar. If the basic premise of the New Atheism is reflected in the syllogism at the top, then it is simply another example the fallacy of the undistributed middle. And post hoc, ergo propter hoc doesn't confuse cause and effect. It confuses cause with sequence.
But the New Atheism, by taking on so much of the form of religion, demonstrates why religion can't really be abolished. It can, however, change shape.