A question for Anti-Theists

[FatAndFaithless]

I get the difference in definition, but if one is a theist in that sense, what's the practical difference? If a God is pulling the strings on the universe (physics, natural phenomena, weather, etc), but we can't communicate with, entreat, quesiton, see, measure, or hear from it, what's the difference between that and a God that ceased to exist when the big bang happened?

-And as before. If we can't communicate with this god - and it is ultimately responsible for the contents of this world as it's creator, how do we seek redress for grievances? What does this have to say about our concept of justice, or of human rights?

yeah that's what I mean, if someone is a 'non-religious theist', it seems almost masochistic to me. "We're all subjects of his whim and there's nothing we can do about it"