I get so tired of this trite old "RELIGION HATEZ QUESTIONS!" mantra

Because it simply isn't true. "Who/what/where/when" questions are asked all the time in my church and readily answered. Why/how questions are answered to a point, but just like everything else it eventually goes to "I don't know/that is how it is".

Talk to any 5 year old for long enough and you will end up saying those things under an unending torrent of "Why"s

"Why was I named Timmy?"
"Because we named you Timothy"
"Why?"
"It was your Grandfather's name"
"Why?"
"Because his parents named him Timothy"
"Why?"

And so on, and so on.