Richard Dawkins and other atheists set up extreme religion as a straw man, point out its absurdities, knock it down and then say "I don't see the point of moderate religion." That is a distortion. There are plenty of good reasons for moderate religion.
Richard Dawkins and other atheists decry the abuses of religious extremism. In the process they fail to understand that the antidote to religious extremism is religious moderation and not the "inerrant" fundamentalism which has become much of atheism.
They also fail to appreciate that religious moderates are their allies in many political issues, such as church/state separation.
Further, open minded believers can accept that there is validity in much of the atheist critique of religion. Why can't open minded atheists see the redemptive value of moderate religion? Religion has many terrible things to answer for -- and can claim many good things, too. Atheism also has a track record which is full of extremism and fanatical intolerance.
Sam Harris said "religious liberalism is simply failed fundamentalism." Not so. Fundamentalism is failed liberalism.
James Randy has written a critique of Kabbalah. Most of what he writes is just wrong. I doubt he has studied these sources in the original Aramaic. Many atheists call themselves "brights," but are so contemptuously dismissive of what they don't know and so convinced if their intellectual prowess, they can't stop to consider that "ignorant" or "arrogant" might be a more apt description. This may come as a surprise, but there really are intelligent believers from whom you could learn.
It is time for atheists and moderate religious people to stop the vitriol and speak to one another without "witnessing" on one hand nor "rants" on the other. There are good atheists and good religious people. We need to explore what we have in common.