Was Jefferson a diest?

Yes

Yes, I've read much of the materials he wrote himself; including his own version of the Bible with all the miracles removed.

Edit (finishing quotes below taken out of context):

"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...ascribing to himself every HUMAN [Jefferson's ephasis] excellence." [Letter to Benjamin Rush April 21, 1803] . Interestingly, the line before also says "To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself." In other words, he's saying Christianity is not the religion founded by Jesus, it was corrupted from what Jesus said into something else.

"I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials, which I call the Philosophy of Jesus [a.k.a., "The Jefferson Bible"]; it is a paradigma of his doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book, and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain orer of time or subject. A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it [The Jefferson Bible, not the Christian Bible] is a document in proof that I am a REAL CHRISTIAN [Jefferson's emphasis], that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call ME infidel and THEMSELVES Christians and preachers of the gospel." -- Letter to Charles Thomason, January 9, 1816.

convinced, Thomas Jefferson turned right into a deist. or practiced Deism, although you pick to positioned it. So were different founding fathers, collectively with Ben Franklin. basically what it ability is they believed in extra of a medical perspectives of the global round them particularly than religious perspectives. Deism is a non secular philosophy and circulate that turned in demand in England, France, and america interior the seventeenth and 18th centuries. Deists oftentimes reject supernatural activities (prophecy, miracles) and divine revelation in demand in prepared faith, alongside with holy books and printed religions that assert the life of such issues. instead, deists carry that religious beliefs must be in accordance to human reason and stated constructive factors of the organic global, and that those resources exhibit the life of one God or ideally suited being.

I've a better suggestion, read his own words.

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 towards uniformity.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

I love these quotes:

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”

“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”

"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." [Letter to Benjamin Rush April 21, 1803]

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” [Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781]

“It [the Bible] is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."

[Jan 9, 1816 Letter to Charles Thomson]

Surely, Christians, your cause must be growing desperate, when, to sustain it, you must needs claim for its support so bitter an enemy as Thomas Jefferson -- a man who affirmed that he was a Materialist; a man who recognized in your religion only "our particular superstition," a superstition without "one redeeming feature;" a man who divided the Christian world into two classes -- hypocrites and fools; a man who asserted that your Bible is a book abounding with "vulgar ignorance;" a man who termed your Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, a "hocus-pocus phantasm;" a man who denounced your God as "cruel, vindictive, and unjust;" a man who intimated that your Savior was "a man of illegitimate birth;" a man who declared his disciples, including your oracle, Paul, to be a "band of dupes and impostors," and who characterized your modern priesthood as "cannibal priests" and an "abandoned confederacy" against public happiness.

Well he rewrote the New Testament because he didn't believe a lot of it. That certainly tells you he wasn't a Christian.

He wanted to pick and choose to his liking... so he, as any person, had judgment according to the measure of his faith in Christ.

Never met him.

He was a Christian