{"id":3146,"date":"2010-07-07T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/why-nobody-calls-them-brights-but-themselves\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:25:26","slug":"why-nobody-calls-them-brights-but-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/why-nobody-calls-them-brights-but-themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Nobody Calls Them “Brights” but Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Some worshipper of the prophet Darwin (pbuh) explains that Catholics are dumber because smarter members of society become celibates and don\u2019t pass on their genes.<\/p>\n

No. Really.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, out of a billion+ Catholics, I suspect the percentage of ordained\/religious\/consecrated is probably on the order of .0000001%. I seriously doubt there are enough embracing virginity to shallow the gene pool. Meanwhile, the percentage of Brights who abort or refuse to have kids is, I am willing to bet money, orders of magnitude greater. That\u2019s why the grandkids of the Brights will be shouting not, \u201cGod is dead!\u201d but \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d And, in terms of brilliant, technologically advanced cultures, the Islamosphere is not exactly where it\u2019s at. Everything they have they buy with oil money or heroin revenues. They had to use our own tech against us on 9\/11 because they haven\u2019t invented anything since the zero.<\/p>\n

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Some worshipper of the prophet Darwin (pbuh) explains that Catholics are dumber because smarter members of society become celibates and don\u2019t pass on their genes. No. Really. Now, out of a billion+ Catholics, I suspect the percentage of ordained\/religious\/consecrated is probably on the order of .0000001%. 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