atheist re your message on my talk page saying the idea of god is utterly ridiculous is just an emphatic way of saying god s does do not exist on another note your post which gave the original lead for this article brought up a nagging question in my mind why aren't budhists atheists clearly they're not and yet technically they fit the definition as they reject the idea of a deity in other words how does one differentiate what we know as atheism from religons that simply do not involve deities perhaps in defining atheists we should use the term supernatural e g atheists reject the existense of dieties and the supernatural would that be to broad a definition can someone be an atheist and yet still believe in some supernatural phenomena thoughts