I agree. But the founding fathers were not atheists. Like you said they were deists who believed in a "creator". There is nothign wrong with saying the pledge of allegiance in school or having In god we trust on our money. Nor is there anything wrong with having the ten commandments posted in public buildings. That is not evangelicism which the fathers were staunch opponents of.
Any Christian of their worth would consider them ' atheists ' especially when they're denying the holy trinity but in the conventional term they weren't atheists
and there is plenty wrong with ANY endorsement of ANY religion , not just the Judeo-Christian one , in God we trust was never even on bank notes , what's next? in Ganesh we trust on the currency? where does it end? there is a move by the Christian right to inject their religion into America politics and way of life and it's wrong ...believe what you want , I fully support your right to believe in Jesus , Mary and God but when Christians are trying to dictate to the rest of us how we should live and what we can and can't do then we have a problem.