Yes, he would not have fit into the "Christian box" that exists in modern American culture, nor would have a lot of ancient Christians. He, like most of the deists, still believed in God – just not quite as "structured" as we have these days.

Even C.S. Lewis, who is uplifted by evangelicals, had some very different views about God that they would find strange.

The problem is that – like everything else, Christianity has been broken up into nice and neat little boxes. God simply will not fit in these.