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Thanks. The misconception arises because even in Jefferson's day, Unitarians were not seen as Christians by other sects. We see that same thing today in religion. Some Jews don't think other Jews are really Jews. Protestants and Catholics , some of them, don't believe the others are really Christians. Rather than get into it with them, I find it easier simply to accept what people call themselves and let God sort them out.

Rather than rehash this endlessly with others, here are some keywords for anyone interested in the dissenter/Unitarians of the Revolutionary era: Joseph Priestley, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin,Theophilus Lindsey, William Ellery Channing, Unitarian.

Catholics alway kept a ken eye out for heretics and the Catholic encyclopedia of 1905 has a remarkably fair account of the history of Unitarianism in America and elsewhere here.

Unitarianism is important because it is one half of the equation which created the liberal/conservative split in American politics. Harvard was Unitarian and "liberal". Yale was Calvinist and "fundamental" or conservative.

Harvard won that battle. But Unitarian Christianity lost its soul--Unitarians today, except for a very few here and there, are not Christian at all. They are marxists, statists, new-agers, Buddhists, Wiccans or whatever.