Is there not some element of hypocrisy
I don't think so. If the problem is that the man is off his meds, I don't see any problem having him swear an oath when he is on his meds. The rest of us, theist or atheist don't act the way he does.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass