Atheists & Agnostics

but your excerpt mentioned the us vs. them, good (Christian) vs. evil (Islam) without historical context that goes back more than a few decades feel good dichotomy plus liking the various rituals. Those seem both ignorant and shallow to me, but he's certainly entitled to follow whatever idiocy he wants to as long as he leaves me out of it.

I suppose he "became" a Christian for the same basic reason he "became" an atheist in the past: it was fashionable.

FWIW, I didn't "become" an atheist. I just started to admit what I always was, the religious bullying of my childhood not having taken. In my own case, it was distinctly unfashionable, another disqualification for being the sweet flower of southern womanhood.