If an atheist uses religion to straighten out his life, would his atheist friends disown him?

For instance, you have ”Mel”, a ne’er-do-well that always got into trouble. He was also an atheist. After getting into serious trouble where he lay in a coma 12 days at death’s door, we wakes to find out his family and their friends had prayed for him to revive and be whole. He woke, but he had limited function of his legs and right arm. He said all he wanted was to have those functions back so his mother and family prayed for that. Against all the predictions his doctors had, he regained 96% of all his motor functions. After which he tried God, and started praying and good things start happening in his life. He then gave himself to God. Because he abandoned atheism and found religion would his former atheist friends disown him and want no more to do with him, or would they accept that he found direction in his life through religion?