What is the difference between a deist god and no god?

[Atomist]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a deist god that doesn't intervene is essentially the same as no god existing... so is there a reason why people should hold a deist position than over the position that no such god exist?

I mean when atheist give arguments against gods the arguments are always for theistic gods (particularly intervening ones).

Unless it's some nebulous argument like there is no evidence for god therefore belief in god is unjustified. But such an argument doesn't address existence.

 

[Nadia Faiazova]

HI! The deist acknowledging the existence of God as the Creator, but denies that God gave man any revelation of himself and that he is at all interested in man’s lot. According to the deist, God is “an absentee-God, who, once and for all having wound up the world-machine, has left it to run its own course and to work out its own self-evolution.”