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Again, I have to disagree. Jefferson was a devout Christian. He was the author of The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels. His long correspondence with John Adams is filled with religious discussion.

Also, he was not a member of the Unitarian Church.

From the Unitarian Universalist Website:
"Like many others of his time (he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership. He never joined a Unitarian congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his lifetime. He regularly attended Joseph Priestley's Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian. Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents, because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the trinitarian theology."

Thomas Jefferson was a man who immersed himself in theology and religious thought. His beliefs may have not been the mainstream, but to suggest that he was not a particularly religious man just isn't true.

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