The Burden of Proof should be on religious people.

 There's the classic point that the religious are the ones pushing a position of theism in a world where this deity isn't present in any way not explained by something else. However, there are two other reasons the religious should hold the burden.

1. Their claim is active: something exists despite the lack of definitive proof. The atheist claim is passive: there isn't anything more than what is demonstrated to be real through evidence, or, under some circumstances, indisputable analysis that determines it to have been there instead of something else.

2. The religious claim is the one that inflicts a burden. Denying the religious claim if it is true entails either hell in the Christian faiths or being subjected to rebirth in the Eastern religions (or, according to some denominations of Buddhism, both). The atheist claim just tells you not to assert properties onto dirt that isn't already found in the dirt.

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