I have been curious about this, partly because I've struggled with my own religious views. But based on my own experience and that of the few people who shared with me, religious psychiatrists are rare. Other specialists are more likely to be religious than professionals who deal with mental health issues. Obviously Freud, the father of psychiatry, did not have much respect for religion and thought God was an illusion. But there's been a long time since Freud and most of his views are no longer accepted anyways.

I am not looking for discussion about why people should or should not be religious or if religion is good or bad. There is a different section for that.

I'm just curious about why most therapists are not religious. Is it historical reasons (Freud), because of their training (religion not mentioned), because of being exposed to too much suffering in their clients (how could a loving God allow that), what?