Religiosity has such a broad spectrum even within its major components simply knowing a candidates religion is not equal to knowing how they’ll act—in fact, it’s hardly a predictor of anything. We just need to look back through the history of US politicians to see who followed what mythology and wonder at how shockingly different they were.

Don’t vote on religion—the politician waving his flag is not “one of us” she’s a politician. An individual born and bred to live in a sea of diplomacy and hand waving by people so much larger than life they cannot experience the simple pleasure of sitting at the corner diner to eat a sundae. Furthermore: they have a job.

They work for us. Why should be permit them to split their loyalty between us and whatever strange gods inhabit their mythology; especially when such vast differences exist even between the followers of the same gods. These are not the things that make politicians do a good job for us. What does that is when we keep them honest.

There are no guarantees that a politician will hold to their campaign promises in the first place—this is the same guarantee that a politician who claims to be the same religion as us actually has the same morality: NONE. As a result, We The People, need to vote bureaucrats out of office who fail to live up to their jobs, who make bad promises and fail at them, or simply fall out of line with the public interest.

Keeping a person in office out of religious sympathy will only hurt us and blind us to even obvious danger.