what is good about having a high proportion of one's life be affected by religious rules?
It may be worth something for people to have some low-hanging fruit for feeling as though they're doing the right thing.
That sounds like a small factor compared to what the rules actually tell people to do.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.