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I believe there is no god. It makes me a hard atheist in more ways than one.

 Yair,  Quite.

Stating "There is no god"  or "'I believe there is no god" are affirming statements and attract the  burden of proof.

An invidious place to be for theist or atheist.  As far as I'm aware, all claims about god(s) are unfalsifiable. IE so far, nobody has managed to demonstrate the existence  or non existence of god(s)  That absence of empirical evidence implies (suggests) The non existence of god(s), it does not infer it (allow such a conclusion).  

I call myself an agnostic atheist. IE The absence of empirical evidence does not allow me to believe. However, I make no claims for the same reason.

In a purely pragmatic sense, I live as if  there are no god(s).  The distinction therefore becomes moot. Quite happy to discuss it with you, but not with our new little friend just yet.

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See Russell's Teapot:

Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion.[1] He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.


Russell's teapot - Wikipedia