(June 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Because atheism is the default position. It doesn't teach anything. You can't brainwash people if you don't teach them what to think. Atheism teaches you how to think.
Teaching critical thinking skills teaches how to think. It's easy to identify atheism with all the things that tend to be associated with it in the West, but remember that technically, Jains and Raellians are also atheists.
