Hey Eroica, good job hating what the deist say and not hating the deists
Religion is hard for me to really understand sometimes - my parents are Catholics, and I was raised Catholic. I know they are good, loving people. They're not the types who question things a whole lot, so when faced with a question like "What kind of a benevolent God would do things like this?" the best the generally come up with is something along the lines of "God works in mysterious ways. Even if we don't know why he does things, it's good just to know he has a reason, even if it's not one we can understand."