I heard that Andre wouldn't let an atheist friend of his (ollllld friend) hold his child. Andre is very devout, I won't even fathom mentioning that I'm not religious to him.
Andre is cool with people who have different religious views than him. My guess is that there is more to that story. Andre has said that his life before he became religious was full of bad things, so an old friend could have still been involved in the type of stuff he didn't want around his kid (drugs, gangs, etc.)