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fschmidt wrote

So then what should an intelligent individual within a religion do?  The only sensible thing to do is to try to form a eugenic group within the religion.

Eugenics is the process of creating desirable heritable traits in the next generation.

Marriage for the purpose of good parenting is eugenic.

Married parents are more likely to give their legitimate offspring the heritable trait of marriageability than unmarried parents their illegitimate offspring.

Illegitimacy is therefore dysgenic.

If there is an anxiety about people getting stupider, weaker and poorer, it is because of the state's failure to respect the institutions of marriage and the family.  

The solution must be to resolve to do so by adopting a religion that would specifically and explicitly require extramarital sex to be punished.

http://quran.com/24/2