But most people wouldn't have it any other way, really have no desire to be innocent as Adam and Eve were.
I don't agree.
In a way, this comment goes to the heart of the disconnect between theists of the more ardent sort, and skeptics. The ardent theists tend to assume that if someone rejects their religion, it can only be out of mendacity or a desire for moral anarchy.
They seem to have the greatest difficulty in getting the concept that the skeptics might be quite well disposed to the idea of a morally ordered universe, if there were sufficient evidence.
The skeptics reject the religious claims not out of mendacity or hostility, but because they have examined the claims and regard them as unsupported by the evidence and/or logically incoherent.
A lot of theists (not all) just don't seem to get this.
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