Even if that was true, wisdom is not determined by I.Q., which atheists boast they overall test higher in. And
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. (Psalms 111:10)
And while you call yourself a pastor (even if an unScriptural NT "priest" ), yet your church even believes corporal punishment is sanctioned in church discipline (or has that also been changed?):
The Church has the right, as a perfect and independent society provided with all the means for attaining its end, to decide according to its laws disputes arising concerning its internal affairs, epecially as to the ecclesiastical rights of its members, also to to carry out its decision, if necessary, by suitable means of compulsion , contentious or civil jurisdiction. It has, therefore, the right to admonish or warn its members, ecclesiastical or lay, who have not conformed to its laws and also, if needful to punish them by physical means, that is, coercive jurisdiction . — Catholic Encyclopedia Jurisdiction CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
The objection to hitting folks sure didn’t slow down the Inquisition did it!