Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150713052232/@comment-24891101-20150727192145

Deism is belief in a watchmaker god. That is, one which designed the universe, touched off the Big Bang, and then watched it unfold, with little to no further intervention. God as Prime Mover, in other words. It's about the most bare-bones form of god-belief possible. A creator god created, and nothing else. Often, it's very nearly functionally equivalent to atheism.