Whats the point of deism?

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Dawkins in The God Delusion described deism as "watered down theism", a quote that leads me to speculate that he's never met any deists or actually spoken with them and is simply going by the dictionary. The Christian and the Muslim also use the term "God" and the similarity ends there. Even the shared term itself has a radically different meaning for us then for them. One atheist once complained rightly enough that deism was a "category confusion" since the same word suddenly means something completely different (which is why I frequently use the term "Yahweh" for the Christian god). I think the category confusion works for the freethought movement, since it underscores that the work for the theist goes well beyond establishing a creator but also knowing the mind of it

I'm kind of curious if you would describe yourself as an agnostic as well as a deist the same way that many people on here call themselves agnostic atheists.