>>Without Religion there is no evil
Au contraire mon FRere.
"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
Jefferson was not talking about Religion - which he loathed, and for good reason.
Seems to me Jefferson was talking about self-evident Truth rendered by the relationship manifested between the Individual and their Creator -- in minds which Almighty God hath created FREE.
Likewise...
...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;...
... he evidently observed that religion, historically, is most usually a product of the coercive State. Typically manifesting itself in a tyrannical state of affairs that is referred to in the Old Testament as Ba'al.
Ba'al being the subjugated worship of the State by religious mandate -- against which Jefferson declared:
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY
TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"