answer:Honestly, it’s all quite confusing. Deism seems like a form of agnosticism. They ,I’m told, believe in a god /creator of everything, but not that the god /creator would be something we have a relationship with. With atheists there are different types, I most recently learned. To me, an atheist doesn’t believe in any creator or observer ‘god.’ And certainly don’t worship any diety. Most have a sort of code of ethics that they follow, mixed out of what they personally percieve is the ‘right’ thing to do. I don’t think I know any deists. At least none that ‘know’ who or what created this universe. So I’m not sure how they calibrate their moral compass. To me atheisim makes more logical sense. If something did create what we know of as the universe, I think it would have been intelligent aliens. For what purpose? No idea. The problem with any creator theory, to me, is Who created the creator. And who created them etc. No matter what created us, it had to simply materialize out of nothing. That’s the biggest hole in deism or any creator beliefs.