Deism for non-believers

[Taqiyya Mockingbird]

Initially when I was thinking about writing this thread I thought that a Deistic god could basically be proven logically and therefore I would have no choice but to acknowledge its existence.

See, there is your whole problem here in a nutshell. Like any "good" theist (or "deist" or whatever for the arrogantly pedantic), you approach the problem thus:

A) X must be true, by fiat.

B) What specious arguments, assertions, and other horseshit can I try to float to support A?

C) Post B ad nauseum.