As to your claim that Jefferson was a pagan, how do you respond to his own words?
Jefferson wasn't a pagan, he just didn't buy into what he viewed as the evolving theology that Christianity had become over the millennia.
Said Jefferson:
“The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers....Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.”
(Jefferson’s Complete Works, vol 7, pp 210, 257)
I stand by my original claim. But perhaps our definitions differ. Noah Webster defined pagan as “one who
worships false gods”. What Jefferson opposed was the Divinity of Christ and the Trinity. But since God is a Trinity and Christ is Divine, this means Jefferson believed in a false god, when he believed. There may be some question whether at times he even believed in God at all. I don’t say this as an atheist. On the contrary, there are views other than those put forth by either Atheists or David Barton.