Does not believing in God entail believing in the state?

Michelle Bachelet, 54, a socialist who has a strong chance of becoming Chile's first female head of state, says

"I'm agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers last week. "I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the diversity of men and women in Chile -- their different spiritualities, philosophies and ways of life."

I guess it does in this case. I'd prefer a highly religious anti-statistm male or female.