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That would carry the weight of burden of proof. That's why I don't use it (except in the colloquial sense, when embroiled in a monkey-shit-flinging argument.)

When I say "I don't believe your god exists", that doesn't move the burden to me. Any more than it moves the burden to you, to say 'I believe in Jesus, not Odin.'. Or substitute any one of tens of thousands of natural, personal, polytheistic, etc, god(s).


I fully accept that I cannot DISPROVE the existence of an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent being that does not wish to be directly perceived. Would kinda invalidate the omnipotent thing if I could perceive it against its will.

But what I and others can, and are trying to do, is the next closest thing; positively prove that no such entity is required to explain the universe or our place in it. That, coupled with a complete lack of perception of any such being, gives me a working answer to the question, until and unless such a being wishes to make itself known.

(This makes me an Agnostic Atheist.)