Precisely. You have a lower IQ than you would have had otherwise. Five IQ points on average, more IQ points if you were spanked more than average.
It’s amazing how many people think that hitting people is the way to build trust, teach them to reason, and instill love of God and neighbor.
Strange that these people, who believe so strongly in the benefits of hitting people, put their belief into practice only with people who are A fraction of their size.
I guess my IQ should’ve been 200.
I was spanked almost daily. If Dad had a bad day, we all suffered. Mom said I was black and blue while in the crib because I cried. Not a good childhood.
A shrink I saw in my 30s tested me and said she would help me with the Mensa paperwork if I wanted her to. I didn’t. So massive beatings be Dad don’t make a difference.
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