Mr. Kimball,

My friend Ed Brayton and I know the historical record on Jefferson & religion from the inside out (neither of us, for instance, term Jefferson a “Deist” which he was not).

Jefferson did attend Church and supported in a private sense the institution of “religion” (he was against public funding of religion, but thought it would be better if folks were religious and in churches; he just wanted those churches to “Enlighten” their doctrines).

Though the quotation that you site is unconfirmed in the historical record.