Personally I see no difference between atheism and deism as far as morals, behavior, etcetera go. There is no vengeful sits-in-judgment God that decides your end fate, but one off doing something else. My morality is not based on some cook-book recipe for salvation or fear of final retribution but rational social behavior - no different from atheists or agnostics.
The logical position is agnostic - the "we don't know" position. Either side of that is a choice, and atheists go one way, theists the other. Agnostics, atheists and deists agree that - generally speaking - we can't know god or god's purpose, we just disagree on the reasons.
Either way the effect on personal morality is the same: we make choices that affect how we interact with other members of our species, which happens to be a social species, and those choices are based on our being a social species.
Morality would be different for sharks, catbirds, antelope and starfish if they {could\would\should} think about such things.
I envision this as a thread where what it means to live as an atheist can be explored, and what, if anything, is lost or gained when the choice is made to abandon self-deception and embrace atheism.
I don't think I've gained or lost anything compared to being an atheist: I've made a decision the same as an atheist has, with just as much self-deception as the atheist (ie - not choosing agnosticism), but also one not clouded by any deceptions of myths and fantasies either. Let the evidence show what is real.
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