In its typical modern form, deism is anti-Christian, as it denies the divinity of Jesus Christ
By that definition all religions other than christian are "anti-christian". But there is a big difference between anti christian and non christian, to be anti christian one would have to be directly opposed to christianity, whereas to be non christian one need only be apathetic towards christianity, which fits with the beliefs of deism. Non belief in your religion doesn't translate into hatred of your religion, no matter how "persecuted" you want to make people think you are.
rejects the Bible (and all other texts) as God's scripture, and denies his signs and miracles to men.
So do most non-Abrahamic religions, what of it?
It lacks any coherent morality
And christianity doesn't? You need to step back and take at look at some of the many, many inherently immoral acts that christians have and continue to use their religion, it's 'god", and it's scriptures to justify.
and an excuse to claim to be religious while engaging in immoral liberal activity.
What the fuck are you talking about? Just where is it in the bible where your "god" said that "liberal activity" was inherently immoral? This is just another example of the fact that you, and by "you" I'm reffering to the entire "Religious Right", value political ideological purity far more than you value a persons piety or religious sincerity. In fact it often seems to me that many of you put the party before your "god" as evidenced by the fact that so many of your kind reject, without so much as a thought, the idea that someone can be both a liberal and a christian. You act as if christianity was ordained by god to be the exclusive province of the Republican party alone.
Thus it is a favorite of liberals who do not want to be branded with atheism.
Or maybe it's because that's they believe. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that it was the conservative christian right's place to tell people what they do or do not believe.
Deism is also only a short step away from atheism,
Yeah your right, but it's a big fucking step. For that matter christians are just one step away from atheism, after all you are already atheists when it comes to the million or so other gods are are or have been worship.
and deistic beliefs often create a slippery slope to atheism.
No one becomes an atheist by accident, and very few do it without a lot of wrestling with the faith they have, deistic or otherwise.
This is a common tactic of atheist evangelists
And just how does one go about evangelising the lack of belief?
first convince a Christian that God has left the world alone, and then deny the necessity of God
Why do you people think that the world revolves around christianity? It doesn't, nor are there hordes of "atheist evangelists" out there trying to convert every christian they see. Besides you cannot convince someone that "god", christian or otherwise, does not exist, they really have to convince themselves of that fact. There is no rational argument that will make a person abandon their deeply held religious beliefs.
They are morally equivalent, given God's presumed inaction.
No, they are not. It's not a question of morality, it's a question of whether or not a person believes a "god" created the universe and stepped away or that there was never a "god" in the first place. Those two things are not equivalent, morally or otherwise.