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Isn’t Peterson an atheist though? I’ve noticed he is very careful in his words to not imply that he believes the Bible is actually true, only that Western culture is built on the idea.

No. He is not an atheist. He is asking the right questions, and doesn't seem afraid to where the answers lead. His wife is a rosary-praying Christian. His approach reminds me a bit of the humanist-left Christians in the 1960s, only he is trying to pull of the same approach to justify non-relativistic moral standards, which is now regarded as quite right wing. His professional and academic commitment to evolutionary biology as a central characteristic to his world-view and scientific view warps his prioritizations and presuppositions, in my opinion.

If you have been listening to him for years, he is moving in the right direction, and at least once when he was challenged to embrace Catholicism, he wasn't offended, and suggested that that may come. He seems to have sympathies with the Orthodox as well.

He seems kind of insincere in this regard to me, almost as if he realized his audience is overwhelmingly Republican Christians and so he’s refashioned himself to be more suitable to the audience’s ideas.

Something just seems like an act when he speaks. He’s so theatrical that it rubs me the wrong way.