Something pinged at the back of my mind and wondered before what is so bad with eating the apple of knowledge. Everyone loves to have knowledge, right? The fall of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden also sounds so strikingly similar from the story of Prometheus, who gave fire to humans to help themselves, but he was punished.

Now as an adult, the stories just tell people to stop thinking for themselves and surrender their agency to a higher authority and be unquestionably obedient.

this was one of the things that I first picked up on as a kid, and the adults did not like my line of questioning about it.

Children are natural philosophers. It's because they have fresh eyes and untrained with the world that they see things that adults were taught to not see or ignore.