Why are deists so annoying?

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This is what makes it all the more confusing for me.

Pretty much every Deist I've spoken to/met, is pretty damn intelligent. Probably more so than myself at least on the whole. Like you say, they're very much aware they can't provide a convincing argument. But this is why I think they're being intellectually dishonest with themselves. Why is it they can convince themselves there's some supernatural entity, but no one else? They choose to make the leap of faith, in spite of them knowing it's unnecessary. I will never understand that.

Fall down the chasm, or build a bridge across it.

Or blow up some balloons

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I will agree deism has no dogmas (even their belief in god can be questioned, that's why some deists become atheists later), and many of these deists seem fairly intelligent people, they are just afraid to let go the other hand.

More like... afraid of what 'the other hand' is trying to do to them, and shooting at it with boom boom sticks.

And they get annoyed when I tell them deism is an unfalsifiable claim (it is).

All claims ultimately are.

I think the reason deists, from my experience similarly to theists, get so easily offended and hurt with critics is because they know deism, just like theism, is full of flaws and they are afraid to see their position refuted successfully. As an atheist, I gladly accept all critics, I usually say that to give atheism a better stance we ought to refute all critics, refusing them only shows fear.

Believe what you will... but nobody likes a critic.

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Although, you know, instead of the banana... oh sorry, I was about to go too far again.

Get out.

My wife tells me I do that.

She's right.

It must be especially jarring when juxtaposed with my otherwise gentlemanly demeanor.

Yeah... just carry a banana around in this neighborhood. See what happens.