Of all the books that most people classify with the Genre of Religion, this book is one of the very extremely rare books that actually can be classified using the very improper "Religion & Spirituality" Genre.
All while everything we know of the Man who created the original, which this book is based on, tells us that the Man was in no way whatsoever an ascriber to Religion, period!

Though while we can not state, and should neither claim, nor assert that the man ascribed at all to any sort of Spirituality.....
.....one should find it difficult to not feel that per the facts of the man's life, leaves one wanting to believe that he was a Spiritual person.

I however, will not use the LibraryThing genre: "Religion & Spirituality", to classify my copy of this book. - Simply because our American Founding Fathers, did not discuss Spirituality. Most likely, their reason was because of just how personal Spirituality truely IS.

At the same time, any person of more than the most base, most rudimentary intellect pays attention to the United States Constitution, and its Amendments, will know, very well, the American Founding Fathers wrote into the Foundational LAWs of the United States, that Religion be all but totally illegal! further that for what minuscule ways in which Religion is legal in the United States, such ascription MUST, in all ways, be kept in the most extreme, personal and private!

If you want to understand what the classical deism of the American revolution means, read this book.If you want to understand why we have a a first amendment specifying separation of church and state, read this book. Jefferson was a complex character, but was, above all else, an independent and fearless thinker. To quote JFK's remarks at a dinner for Nobel laureates at the White House in 1962: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Five stars. No doubts. ( )

I actually read this online. It was a quick read, too.

Probably the best review of the intent of this book would be this prayer from the UUA site. ( )

It is what it is. ( )

I give it 3 stars for being Jefferson, but Jefferson missed the point about Christ. ( )