Jonathan Haidt on "religion"

I was reading an profile of Jonathan Haidt in the Chronicle of Higher Education shortly after he released a new book on tribalism and moral reasoning and came across the following quote:

Though he's an atheist, he lambasts the liberal scientists of New Atheism for focusing on what religious people believe rather than how religion binds them into communities.

The article then incorporated a response to this from Sam Harris:

Haidt's "relentlessly self-deceived" understanding of faith makes it seem as if God and revelation were somehow peripheral issues in religion, fumes Sam Harris, one of "the Four Horsemen" of New Atheism and author of The End of Faith. "This is rather like saying that uncontrolled cell growth is a peripheral issue in cancer biology," Harris e-mails me.

Here I think that I have to side with Harris for the most part. Of course, there's an element of truth to Haidt's assertion that there's a lot of group dynamics at play - particularly since many folks who call themselves Christian seem to know little of the BIble.