If you really want to get into it, technically the burden of proof goes upon the person with the new idea that's different from the "norm" and since the norm was to believe that there IS some form of higher being, regardless of which specific religion you believe in, that would mean that the burden of proof is on the atheists with the new idea that there is no God/s. Trying to push the burden onto religious people is the essence of burden of proof reversal
That very statement itself is a burden reversal and over complicates matters. The burden of proof lies with the claimant, reguardless of the claims made or their belief. Period.
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No one is exempt. No one.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof
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No one is exempt. No one.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof