Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?

[RoadRunner79]

You can look it up if you like... but the burden of proof is on the one making the claim. Any claim; it’s up to the making it to support it. .

Now if you are not making any claims except for your own mental state, then you have no burden of proof for that.

From your support of the claim that the burden of proof is used by us to avoid supporting a claim, you don't seem to actually understand that. Even if you do, reading comprehension still seems to be a challenge for you. See the bolded above.

I, like the vast majority of atheist, do not make the claim that there is/are no god(s). There could be one out there somewhere. But, until given sufficient reason, why should I be bothered to believe in one?

All I'm saying, is that the one making a claim, has the burden of proof, to support that claim.   Whether it is a positive claim, or a negative claim, you need to support what you are asserting.

 But this isn't always the case.   If you are just making a statement about your belief, and not saying anything about something objective and outside of yourself, then you do not have a burden of proof.  You might also note, that just because someone is a Christian or a theist, it doesn't lay an inherent burden upon them to offer proof every time an atheists wants to change the subject.  I think that too often atheist think that the burden is inherent to the Christian belief and not their own, when really it has more to do with the immediate discussion.