Putting aside one's political beliefs for a moment, if one were an agnostic, atheist or even a deist, wouldn't one be quite disturbed by the pervasive religiousness of politicians on both sides of the aisle? Wouldn't the fact that the great bulk of politicians claim to have a personal relationship with a fictional being they call 'god' and that a fantastic narrative about heaven, a messiah and this fictional being is true and explains the origin of the universe and earth itself, be cause for alarm? These people go to a church on a regular basis and claim to be able to speak to god through prayer. And of course they claim that their legislative policies are inspired by this god.
Without a doubt, the probability that their prayer is actually being received and interpreted by some divine being is just about 0. So any personal relationship with some deity is undoubtedly made up in their head. The same goes for their religious narrative, and all the fables thereof. The probability of it being true is very nearly 0, if not actually 0. How do we know? Because reality doesn't work the way these narratives have described it. Science has clearly shown this, and there isn't a single shred of evidence that it ever did work in the way the narratives describe.
So those who are supposed to be the most level headed and rational people around, are head over heels into supernatural belief systems. A couple questions come to my mind. Is the strong correlation between those who hold political office and these supernatural belief systems evidence that policymaking is in large part a faith based action in itself? And my other question is, isn't it about time that the large numbers of non-religious people start questioning the religiosity of politicians?