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A religion with high standards for members is effectively doing evolutionary selection for its group based on these standards. Most religions encourage in-group breeding. Good religions encourage monogamy which is eugenic and discourage promiscuity which is dysgenic. Monogamy selects for responsible parenting while promiscuity selects for immoral behavior through Fisherian selection. I wrote a long post about these ideas here:

http://www.mikraite.org/Human-Evolution-tp17.html

Religion is the only practical solution. Political solutions are simply not practical. But a small group of people could form a eugenic religion.

A religion with high standards for members is effectively doing evolutionary selection for its group based on these standards. Most religions encourage in-group breeding. Good religions encourage monogamy which is eugenic and discourage promiscuity which is dysgenic. Monogamy selects for responsible parenting while promiscuity selects for immoral behavior through Fisherian selection. I wrote a long post about these ideas here: http://www.mikraite.org/Human-Evolution-tp17.html Religion is the only practical solution. Political solutions are simply not practical. But a small group of people could form a eugenic religion.

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Marriage between first cousins ... has no negative effect on the overall gene pool.

Citation needed.

Take a look at this article from PJMedia (pjmedia.com). It seems like the problems extend to the community at large where inbreeding occurs -- not just the inbred children.

Even if you say all of the problems in this community are 100% the children of first cousin marriages and those problems all go away in the second generation, it still has a negative effect on the genepool.

So I would say not every religion is necessarily eugenic.

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I give up. If someone asks for a citation to support the statement "1 + 1 = 2" then I just need to end the conversation.

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"1+1=2" is fairly obvious. But here, just for fun. (mathforum.org)

"Marriage between first cousins ... has no negative effect on the overall gene pool" is pretty dubious on its face, which makes it different from your 1+1=2 example.

You should really be able to back a claim like that up if you're going to make it in the first place.