"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
When these statements were being written " the majority of which in the late 18th and early 19th centuries " this nation was significantly more religious and so including statements of their nature in official documents, although mildly inappropriate, would have been easily justified as they represented large swaths of the state population's opinion at the time. That said they still did not change the nature of the documents they were pre to or the federal document their larger body swore to uphold.
Because I'm mildly obsessed with this issue and that I have no life outside of blogging I did a simple tally and found that of the fifty state preambles only forty of them actually use the term "God and of those only thirty-three say "Almighty God (not a major difference except when you consider that most of the founding fathers of this nation were not Christians but Deists). The remaining ten preambles use broader titles to address their deity such as:
Author of Existence
Creator
Divine Guidance
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