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But acknowledging a very generic God as the official benefactor and law giver of the USA is both explicit and implicit in the founding documents of the USA.

No one has yet pointed out where the Constitution states or implies it. It would have been the simplest thing to place this acknowledgement (or even a reference to the Declaration) in the Preamble, and it was not done. Not even as "the heavens", or "providence", or any of the other words Washington used apparently to avoid mentioning God or Jesus.

Considering the precision of the Framers and the known support for Separation among Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, and others, it makes a great deal of sense to presume that the omission was quite intentional.

-Eric

These are the signatures of those signing the Constitution and is part of the document. Every one of them affixed his signature. They each also affixed their signatures to the DOI affirming that rights are granted by the creator and are unalienable as opposed to being granted by the state and fungible.

If you'd like I can supply plenty of quotes from the deists and Christians affirming the free exercise of religion in the public square but what's the point? There signatures are their witness.

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 and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.

In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

G. Washington-Presidt. and deputy from Virginia

New Hampshire: John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King

Connecticut: Wm: Saml. Johnson, Roger Sherman

New York: Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey: Wil: Livingston, David Brearly, Wm. Paterson, Jona: Dayton

Pennsylvania: B. Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt. Morris, Geo. Clymer, Thos. FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris

Delaware: Geo: Read, Gunning Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco: Broom

Maryland: James McHenry, Dan of St Thos. Jenifer, Danl Carroll

Virginia: John Blair--, James Madison Jr.

North Carolina: Wm. Blount, Richd. Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson

South Carolina: J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler

Georgia: William Few, Abr Baldwin