Anyone who thinks that Jefferson was a Christian is a fool who probably thinks that Tim LaHay is a prophet.
What is a christian?...
The charges Jefferson was an infidel, a Jacobin, a deist and/or an atheist were made by Jefferson's Federalist opposition in 1800 and 1804. To them, he was all those things. They were neo-Calvinists, the last of the Puritans. Oliver Wolcott, who signed both the DOI and Articles of Confederation wanted the north to pull out of the union if Jefferson were elected President. But Christian clergy who were for Jefferson gave sermons refuting those charges. Jefferson was a heretic but he was a Christian heretic. Anti-trinitarians were common at the time. Harvard was full of them. Yale went the other way, into Neo-Calvinism In 1804 Jefferson even hired a minister, David Allen, to go to Federalist Connecticut and preach that if Jefferson were re-elected, Jesus Christ would return to earth.
Well then, you’ll have to number Jefferson among those fools. He declared himself a Christian.