I'm not sure that's true. A Deist is someone who believes there's a God. That's different from someone who is agnostic but who would say there's a God if forc

I'm not sure that's true. A Deist is someone who believes there's a God. That's different from someone who is agnostic but who would say there's a God if forced to give an opinion. Example: A deist is probably going to read religious text even if they don't completely believe in them. Because a Deist believes there is a God meaning that God has some preference as far as our behavior and so they'd be looking for evidence of that preference even if they don't believe in things like miracles (think Thomas Jefferson creating a Bible that omitted any supernatural elements). An agnostic who might lean towards a God isn't going to preoccupy his or her self with moral judgments of a God because they're not really convinced one exists. They might try to be a good person for secular reasons and "just in case" but they aren't going to go out of their way to divine the judgement of something that may very well be imaginary. In other words: One's a seeker while the other just holds an academic belief that there might be something to seek.