IQ OF LEBANESE CHRISTIANS? LOOKS LIKE CHRISTIANITY, NOT IQ.
We have pretty good (not volumnious but sufficient) data on IQ by Denomination. But I don’t find any measures of lebanese christians (~35% of the population) vs the others.
The lebanese, and christian lebanese in particular, evidence is that chrsitianity is what makes a working polity and that islam is the means of undermining that working polity.
Lebanon also demonstrates why you NEVER let islam into your polity under any circumstances, and in particularly by tolerance – because it is not a religion but a political system and method of warfare by social means.
With a small population of 4.7M, Lebanese Genetics are over 90% the same as ancient Caananites who lived at the crossroads of many civilizations and benefited dramatically from it. (the geography and geographic location isn’t bad either).
–“there is a lack of specific studies addressing the IQ differences between Lebanese Christian and non-Christian populations.”– Perplexity
That said, given the genetics of Lebanon, it is unlikely that the christians possess european IQ which is a genetic contribution. Instead, the success of the lebanese is due to the christian ethnic and subsequent social and political morality that gives rise to middle class majorities who double down on that christian majority – because under christiantity (don’t laugh, it’s true) everyone is a potential customer. and that one sentence explains the success of chrisitan doctrine in producing high trust societies over every other society.
If there is an IQ difference between christians and other sects just as there is an IQ difference between christian sects, then it is do to various selection processes just as classes are due to selection processes.
Genetics: Religiously Diverse, and Genetically Homogeneous.
Y-DNA haplogroups
In a 2011 genetic study by Haber et al. which analyzed the male-line Y-chromosome genetics of the different religious groups of Lebanon, revealed no large genetic differentiation between the Maronites, Greek Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholic Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, and Druze of the country in regards to the more frequent haplogroups. Major differences between Lebanese groups were found among the less frequent haplogroups.
Autosomal DNA
In a 2020 study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, authors showed that there is substantial genetic continuity in Lebanon and the Levant since the Bronze Age (3300–1200 BC) interrupted by three significant admixture events during the Iron Age, Hellenistic, and Ottoman period, each contributing 3%–11% of non-local ancestry to the admixed population. The admixtures were tied to the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age collapse, South or Central Asians, and Ottoman Turks, respectively.
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