Believers, non-believers and nothing

One thing that seems to be common to theists and atheists is nothing. Both sides hate it. Believers cannot accept the idea of nothing, since that would mean a situation where God is not present. Atheists have a similar problem with the idea of the universe being formed from nothing. For both, there was always something. For believers, it is God; for atheists/scientists it is energy, according to the First Law of Thermodynamics that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.