sure, he changed his view on that particular thing and that was noble. But him and the other three are arseholes because of the aggressive way they behave(d) towards religious people.

The point of secularism is to allow people to have their faith or lack therof, and have public life not assume one way is correct. They weren’t “atheist figures” they were anti-theistic crusaders, who gave a hand to islamophobes during a time of increased islamophobia during the “war on terror” which laid the foundation of the civil liberties abuses happening today.