Well, you might have to account for said deists carrying around theistic baggage from their upbringing and peers. This is obviously anecdotal, but the deists I've known tend to interpret their deism (and others objections to it) from precisely the same point as whatever sort of theism is/was predominate in their experience. Borrowed ladders, if you will. Not just deist, of course, conversions from one theistic faith to another seem to carry recognizable baggage, and many atheists I know carry baggage from the faiths they abandoned as well.
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