Throughout Jefferson's life he often referred to God and the Bible and would consider himself a Christian yet he was never much of a church goer. Educated as he was he could see through the fallacies of the Catholic "Abracadabra" and the jihad of Mahomet. He was fearful of expressing his opinion on religion as a politician even in his old age because he was well aware of the fire and faggots of Calvin and his victim Servetus. His Unitarian views are well known. He quite literally pasted biblical texts to blank pages avoiding the supernatural element of Christ in a publication that came to be known as the Jefferson Bible printed after his death. Thus presenting a humanistic view of biblical morality without the atoning power of Jesus.
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