Why not deism?

[Inqwizitor]

Good catch, I didn't see that.  Plainly wrong, but I can understand why a catholic would get that item wrong in that way.

I'm curious what you mean by this, exactly.

If theism requires faith, and atheism is a lack of faith: deists claim to acknowledge a causally necessary being with no faith or revelation, so on that score, it isn't a kind of theism but a kind of atheism, unless atheism means more than just a lack of faith.