Why are deists so annoying?

[Bibliofagus]

I'd call that dereliction of duty.

And I'd agree with you.
But that was not the point. To me the similarity is striking. Just a god who created and stopped intervening at some point. So I wonder how common this view of god was in history.
Did it arise anywhere else?

I tried finding information on deistic ideas forming in other cultures, but couldn't find any. So I suspect the deistic god is in a way biblegod stripped down all the way to next to nothing. I'm no expert though.