In my experience -- and this is why the man makes me nervous -- that kind of powerful and sudden "saving" from the grips of dramatic tumult only works because it acts like a dam against the confusion and holds it at bay. Prior to this event B was trying to cure the tumult of confusion by drinking, which only stirred it up worse.
ALL the force and confusion of his confused anger and fear and uncertainty and not-understanding is waiting to eat him for breakfast just the other side of that dyke, which is wholly comprised of his decision to anchor the universe to his religious data. Shake that and the flood breaks through and he is lost, man. Because he didn't walk his way out of the confusion, he just grabbed him some stable data that would be acceptable, and held it back and suppressed it.
Good for him, of course. Except that is why he can't think much or ask many questions or examine things too closely. Because if he does he'll question his radical solution which holds everything at bay, and BAM....he'll be lost in confusion again and that is more pain than he could possibly handle.
It is not a strength, it is just a massive weakness temporarily made to hold still.
As such he is a walking liability and an accident waiting to happen, and not religious at all.