`  == 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?   `