Same here. A definite feeling of disappointment. Isolating, too, to think the only people who seem to think the same way as you are all turning to something you can't support, you can't endorse. I dunno. I think it's a political play, so to speak, in the sense that a lot of the people in this right-thinking sphere are Christian, and maybe this conversion is a way of tapping into that audience/solidifying his community?
Don't know, but what I used to admire about Brand was precisely his center position and his fluid approach to spirituality. If you're now saying oh man it's Jesus or nada, it's kind of a turn-off.