-hackenslashIt's a publicity stunt.
Yeah, that's what I thought too before I read his piece. I am a sucker for false sincerity, I admit, so I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt to the exact point that he MIGHT be sincere in what he THINKS he is doing. But as I've said twice now, there IS no way to "temporarily be Atheist" or "temporarily Theist." Belief isn't a voluntary act on the part of the individual, it is something which they discover in themselves, or they don't.
So yes, I'd say that this is a publicity stunt, at least to the extent that he can't do what he is pretending to do, and in that he is likely to be praising himself for playing this game with himself, as well as doing it openly in order to garner additional support for his ego. The only thing I'm not sure of, is whether he is as unconscionably duplicitous in this as was my first assumption.