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It wasn't my understanding of Deism that they believe in a God that's not omnipotent. I just thought that they believed that God was not revealed in Christian (or Jewish or Islamic, etc.) scripture, but by the use of human reason and observation. Thus, a Deist could accept the moral tenets and teachings of Jesus Christ as being worthy without believing that Jesus was a prophet of God or that Jesus himself was divine. Am I wrong?

You probably misread my post - I was trying to be clever by saying that deists believed in an Om-IMPOTENT god, one who at this time will not or can not do anything.

Deists, by my understanding, believe that some God set the universe in motion but has kept his/her hands off ever since. Thus prayer has no hope to be met with a response other than to change the mindset of the pray-er. They value the teachings of Jesus as they value the teachings of all great teachers. But no, they certainly don't believe in his divinity.