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Actually, I didn't try to be relevant or interesting to the LW community. I'm just currently genuinely very interested in the kinds of questions this post was about, and selfishly thought I'd get very useful criticism and comments if I'd post here like this (as did indeed happen).
Getting downvoted so much is something that I for some reason enjoy very much :) It probably has to do with me thinking, that while there are very valid points on which my post and my decision to post it can be criticized, I suspect that instead of thinking of those valid reasons to dislike what I did, and seeing them as a reason to downvote, the downvoters probably just had a knee-jerk reaction to religion as a topic (probably even suspecting that I'd have religious views that I don't actually have). If this suspicion is true, I would have ended up demonstrating a form of irrationality somewhat widespread within LW readership.
Or then the typical voting LW member is smarter than I thought, and they did actually notice that I was largely just looking for criticism and comments useful to me, instead of formulating my thoughts further on my own, and then perhaps later posting on LW something more polished and with a somewhat different focus.
"the downvoters probably just had a knee-jerk reaction to religion as a topic (probably even suspecting that I'd have religious views that I don't actually have)"
With some exceptions when the poster is well known here, my impression is that posts and comments on the topic of religion do get treated this way on a regular basis.
In my experience bringing up religion to make a point is often a bad call (or so community norms suggest) because politics is the mind killer and alienation for no good reason is generally frowned upon, and bringing up religion as a topic of discussion in itself is often done by those who want to bash religion for a reason that is not sophisticated enough.