Why do Theists think the burden of proof lies on Atheists?

What an excellent illustration of why the burden of proof is not on atheists, darling. I think a lot of people are missing the point here, which is that there's no burden of proof when you're talking about opinions. We're all entitled to our opinions.

It's when you claim that your opinion is a FACT - that it's a FACT that your god exists - that the burden of proof enters into it. Jesus Street - the evidence is the fact that we know - from documented past experience, publicly available - that when buildings burn with people inside, the people are often injured or killed, and that we have laws against injuring or killing others. Therefore, burning down the day care center with kids inside is against the law.

The accepted claim is that it is bad to burn down buildings in which people are trapped. The extraordinary claim is that is is OK to burn such buildings, and, as the maker of an extraordinary claim, it's up to you, in that circumstance to prove that it's a good idea. NCWJ - you can try and try and try to convince people that up is down and black is white, but the fact is that atheists do not make any extraordinary claims.

All we say is that the natural world operates as a natural world without supernatural deviations. You've been told this so often that your continued, persistent spreading of this falsehood is obviously a blatant act of deliberate misinformation. I thought your god frowned on lying.

A claim is extraordinary when it contradicts accepted or proven claims, contradicts the available evidence, or requires you to abandon accepted or proven claims. By that standard, saying that there is no evidence of any gods is NOT an extraordinary claim. For the substance of your contention that atheists are making an extraordinary claim to have any validity, you would first have to prove that your god exists.

Prove. Not suggest. Not claim.

Prove. With evidence. You haven't.

No matter how you try to finaigle it semantically, you are the one making an extraordinary claim, not atheists.

The Apostle Paul said search the scripturs daley, and prove all things, now what he said was prove all things to your self, not to some one else. Proof belongs in the political section, law section. Where the burden of proof is placed on the one that has jurisdiction, that must be the plaintiff, or one whom filed the complaint.

I agree with Lightnin.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.