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Our Constitution was very purposefully written to be a godless document, whose only references to religion are exclusionary.

Article. VII.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven ...

Maybe these folks should look into this "our LORD" fellow. It couldn't be a non-exclusionary reference to religion, could it?

In all fairness, "In the year of our Lord" was generally used on all formal documents at the time. It goes back to the early Christian resistance to the Roman Empire where everything was dated from the founding of Rome. The Constitution is primarly a document laying out the framework for our government, the Declaration of Independence has far more referrences to God.

Here is how I see it:

Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Congress has NEVER tried to establish an official religion. However, what we see now are many attempts by the left to make Congress "prohibit the free exercise" of religion. And it is this second phrase which has been the most ignored. As I said, the phrase "separation of church and state" exists NOWHERE in our Constitution (though the Soviets did have it).

Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Constitution is the framework for the FEDERAL government and Congress is a FEDERAL body. Congress is banned from establishing a state religion; however, any state clearly can unless the individual state's constitution prohibits it. Nearly all of the cases we see in court are against state or local governments, it should never even be a federal issue.