While I had doubts about the existence of God before entering college, I considered myself a Christian and checked off the Protestant Methodist box on my application. Still, I had some apprehension in attending Boston College—a religious, Jesuit, Catholic institution. So, it came much to my surprise that nearly as soon as I stepped on campus, my faith in Christianity and God started to wane
based on this I suspect this person was never a born again gave his life to Christ Christian but someone who’s parents were Christian and he went to church with them.
Indeed. And to be born again this man must become an atheist as i am, in the sense of believing on the Christ of Scripture to save by His sinless shed blood, as a contrite damned+destitute sinner whose living faith is counted for righteousness. And thus is baptized and follows Him, and repenting when convicted of not doing so, praying directly to the Lord in Heaven because of Christ's blood. (Heb. 10:19) .
And thus rejecting a false god who basically has Mary as a 4th person of the Godhead, and saves thru a ritual sprinkling even without moral cognizance and personal repentant faith, and is formally justified on the basis of interior goodness, and thus usually ends his salvation process by becoming good enough to enter Heaven thru torments in Rome's mythical purgatory .