I never thought I'd find myself in the position of hoping someone WASN'T a Christian. Very odd feeling.
It is. I'm glad somone said it out loud. As "out loud" as this gets. It makes me feel a little less weird for having that thought myself. All we can do is pray. I still find it all unsettling.
Rush made a good point today, and it is something I have been thinking about ever since I heard about their "conversion." He asked if we had reached the point where we no longer thought it mattered what we said or did; over the centuries, thousands of people have died for their beliefs, or for expressing their beliefs, or for refusing to adhere publicly to other beliefs, even on a symbolic level; but suddenly we decide it's not really important anymore.
Even if they weren't Christians, presumably they were good PC secularists, believing all the PC stuff and even some good stuff that Western culture (which used to be Christian) has taught them - about human dignity, human rights, freedom, etc. By "converting," they were renouncing all that. They accepted the premises of Islam, they accepted sharia, and they publicly rejected their beliefs, religious or not.
So even if they weren't Christians, they gave away something that can never be gotten back, IMHO. In fact, if they had been Christians, at least they could publicly repent, but what's a secularist to do to retrieve his lost honor, dignity and integrity?