What is Thomas Jeffersons religion?

Answer 1

Based on his letters and his personal editing of the Gospels, my opinion is that he was essentially a Unitarian although he never formally joined or even worshipped in that church. But he seems to have believed that the God of Abraham was God and that The Bible gave a fairly accurate, though not perfect, account of His dealings with His creation. He believed hoever, with the Unitarians, that Jesus was only human but not divine. Michael Montagne

Quotes; Thomas Jefferson about god and Christianity:

Religious Liberty

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Reply to Baptist Address, 1807

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson, to Moses Robinson, 1801, ME 10:237

The clergy ... [wishing to establish their particular form of Christianity] ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

-- Thomas Jefferson, to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173 (capitalization of the word god is retained per original (see inset); see full letter in Positive Atheism's Historical section)

Answer 2

The religious views of Thomas Jefferson diverged widely from the orthodox christianity of his day. Throughout his life Jefferson was intensely interested in theology, religious studies, and mortality. Jefferson was most closely connected with Unitarianism and the religious philosophy of Christian Deism.

Answer 3

He didn't have a religion.

Answer 4

Jefferson was a self proclaimed theist, meaning he believed in God, but that he was not a God who intervened in human affairs. A clockwork creator which viewed creation without interference. This was likely influenced by enlightenment thinkers which Jefferson looked up to, read, and took inspiration from regularly. It is also important to note that Jefferson fought for religious freedom and separation of church and state in America's formative years.