Whether you believe the story of Adam and Eve is a fairy tale or the actual, literal, word of God (it appears in The Old Testament and The Qur'an) I don't think that it is necessarily a "ridiculous story." If kids are taught the story of Adam and Eve and The Garden of Eden and The Fall (from grace) whether through Judeo/Christian or Islamic traditions and taught that it cannot and should not be questioned that THAT is RIDICULOUS. We all have our religious beliefs. Whether you pray five times a day and go to The Mosque every Friday or you don't believe in jack shit, that is your business. It doesn't make you any less or more Canadian or American or whatever.

Organized religion has a tendency to preach blind acceptance and a sheeplike mentality that supresses critical thinking and stifles free and open debate. Islam, Christianity, Judaism and pretty much all religions have been guilty of this in the past, are guilty of this in the present and (most likely) will be guilty of this in the future. If you want to blindly except every letter of what is in The Bible, The Torah, The Qur'an, The Gita or whatever, that is your choice. Freedom of religion means that you have the freedom to accept every single letter of your chosen religious scripture as the absolute, infallible word of God Almighty or as complete horseshit or somewhere in between. No one has the right to question your motives in believing in what you believe unless you make it their business to do so. Having said all this, personally I feel that to blindly accept every thing that is in a particular religious scripture, be it The Qur'an or The Bible or The Torah or The Talmud or whatever is not something that I am prepared to do. It is in my nature to question these types of things and as long as I have the freedom and right to do so, I will continue to do so. At the same time, calling The Bible or The Qur'an or The Torah or whatever an "evil book" without having read, analyzed, researched and carefully searched either all or part of the scripture is just plain stupid to me.