Turnaround heck. If he hadn't believed in God in the first place his life wouldn't have got so crappy that God himself had to intervene and change it's direction. So what the article really said was: be an atheist and you mess up your life worrying about what God was thinking about. Message Received!
And if you don't think that's the message go back and read it again. I'm quite sure that's not what he intended to say. But it's the most elegant solution to the problem presented by the problem.