Why are deists so annoying?

[Napoléon]

This is why I could serve as the director of the Louisville Atheists and Freethinkers for a few years without any issues either in my purpose in running the organization or with its members.

For a time, about a two week period in my life, I had something of what could be called a crisis of non-faith. No, really, I'm serious. I actually wondered what was wrong with me, why I couldn't be a "normal" atheist like all of my friends and family. Why couldn't I, as many would say, "take the final step" or figure out why God was so firmly a part of my philosophical outlook. I came to accept it as just my instinctive nature.

Somewhere around here I posted a thread that goes into my take on deism in greater detail. I'll try to dig it up and post a link.

Like I said before, deists often can't explain properly why they actually have this belief in god. Intellectual dishonesty. At the risk of being a rude cunt, I really think you're kidding yourself when you say you're simply an atheist who doesn't have the lack of belief. I know you said yourself that this was a tongue in cheek description, but you seem to think it's a correct one. I disagree. You're not an atheist in any sense of the word as far as I'm concerned. You might be a secularist, an anti-theist. But I honestly think any belief like the one you have puts you way closer to being a theist than being an atheist.

Maybe it's just the way my brain is wired. God gene anyone? Or perhaps my instincts are on to something. Who knows?

Sounds far more like a theist would say this than an atheist.

Lifestyle wise, ofcourse you probably live like the 'stereotypical atheist', if that's even a thing. I understand your point about everyone being different. But when it comes to what you believe? You are absolutely closer to a theist than an atheist. Saying otherwise is simply lying to yourself. Dawkins was bang on. Deism is watered down theism. It's believing in god without all the doctrinal mumbo jumbo attached. That's 'better' in a great many ways, but still, you believe in something else right? How does that make you closer to atheism. I really don't understand the logic there.