Very true! However I do not believe true critical and skeptical thinking leads to any other conclusion than atheism on the issue of the existence of god(s).
Yes, many critically thinking, educated and intelligent individuals are believers but their ability to be critical and their intelligence did not lead them to the conclusion that god(s) exists.
It's like claiming you are a creation scientist. There is no science involved in creation. Adding scientist to the title is irrelevant just as their intelligence and critical thinking becomes irrelevant when they delve into god claims.

@SkepticPower31

If you are going to put it that way and talk about the “existence of god(s)” then I will have to agree with you. But what about people like Max Planck? He was certainly not an atheist, yet he professed no belief in god(s). He was a person with deep awareness who had a profound appreciation for the vast and staggering implications of the mystery of reality.

Max Planck said in 1944, "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter".

Planck was not talking about god(s). He was talking about Ultimate Reality.