Its intended to show what his motivations were and that he believed in a creator.
I just wondered since the subject of the thread is were we founded as a Christian nation. I agree that Jefferson believed in a creator as do all Deist.
I agree that Christian principles had a very strong influence on the founding of this nation, but to me a Christain nation implies almost a theocracy which it is not. As a matter a fact the theocracies of Europe was one of the reasons people came to America to escape.