Are Deists more like theists or Atheist?

[Angrboda]

I think that if one conceives of religion as a set of obligations, to a god (Christianity) or to a metaphysical reality (Buddhism), then deists are theistic but not religious. They have kept the core of belief but abandoned the notion of specific obligations to the object of belief. So, in that sense, deists are like atheists in that both are non-religious in the sense defined here.