What happened to my friend?

I’ve known this guy since college (for about 6 years) and he was never one specific religion. He just kind of dabbled around with various things and never seemed to bother anyone.

He is now married with a baby on the way and has decided to convert to Christianity. He’s even got tattoos to prove his faith and occasionally quotes a line or two from the bible on Facebook.

Recently, he’s been posting statuses about people being idiots and laws being made against prayer and the like. It seems like ever since he converted, he’s been flaunting it and bashing everything that stands in his way. It’s really starting to piss me off. Religion is supposed to instill love and teach people good moral ways to live… isn’t it?

Why does he feel the need to suddenly speak out? Why is it so important for him to post generic things about people being idiots? What the ‘hell’ happened to this guy?