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Today we're going to talk about an objection

that is in some ways tied to a technical courtroom term, but you probably heard it, something similar to it anyway.

And that is this idea that, look, you Christians, or you people who believe in God, you Theus, you believe in something that is a claim, an affirmative claim, that is not obvious to all of us, in other words it's not standing right in front of us,

and if you're going to claim this thing we can't see is true or exists, then the burden to prove it's true is on you guys who are making the affirmative

claim.

That's why sometimes you'll see that atheists will say, and I don't want to misquote people

who have been watching the show who don't, who would claim that they are not believers,

but I will often hear my friends and family who aren't believers say something akin to,

well you know atheism is not an affirmative claim, not it, not, I don't believe that something

exists, you do. It's a lack of belief on my part. That's, you know,

why would they even say it that way? Why would anybody say that atheism is not

affirmative belief? It's a lack of belief, because it seems to remove the responsibility they would have then

to substantiate an affirmative belief. If you're going to make a claim, then the burden of responsibility

is on the person making the claim to actually

defend the claim.

This is why people, I think non-believers will sometimes couch or describe their own lack of belief as a lack of belief rather than

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