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Because there's no good reason to change it (besides a couple of Atheists being offended), and there are hundreds of millions of Christians in the U.S. who would be opposed to it. Plus, all of our presidents have been some denomination of Christian.

Separation of church and state has to do with religious values not affecting government decisions. This was how the value was originally meant to be. It didn't mean that government should be devoid of all religion. And again, why change it? The U.S. also believes strongly in democracy, and the majority wouldn't want it.