CP3S said:

"My religion says its a sin."

Here is one good example of why my friend is beginning to win me over in his evangelical atheist thinking. Statements like this are kind of scary.

This reminds me of a recent discussion I had with a friend. She said that her son - 4 years old - asked her why the sky was blue. Her answer: "because God made it that way." That one really made me angry... here is a kid who displays a bit of intellectual curiosity, and rather than using it as learning moment (say, by looking it up in a book together, or on the internet), she put the kabosh on it. No need to actually learn things, just attribute everything to God and you're always right, even if you don't know what you're talking about.

Then again, sampling from the tree of knowledge was the original sin that we're supposedly still paying for, so maybe she was right after all.