The NXR Podcast - October 03, 2026


How Rome, Greece, & Sparta Discarded The Weak and Unfit

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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Eckhart Wesley Todd Prolegomena
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11 minutes

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1,453

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60

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00:00:00.000 Yes, race is real, but as Christians, we must live morally in light of this fact.
00:00:07.220 You are currently listening to part one of a comprehensive seven-part series on the topic
00:00:13.480 of race from both a biblical and biological perspective.
00:00:18.260 Each of these segments in this seven-part series are comprehensive and yet also concise,
00:00:25.100 approximately 10 minutes in length.
00:00:27.520 And this series comes from the prolegomena from my new book titled White Genocide.
00:00:33.740 If you'd like to listen to the audio version of this book in its entirety, it is exclusively available on the NXR Plus app.
00:00:42.080 Go to your favorite app store, search NXR Plus, and start listening today.
00:00:47.140 And no, it is not an AI recording.
00:00:49.760 We paid for this to be a human professional narrator, so it's high quality and very enjoyable.
00:00:56.360 Tune in now.
00:00:57.520 Prolegomena, The Souls of Nations, Race Realism, and the Eugenics of Religion
00:01:06.480 Joel Webin and Wesley Todd
00:01:09.840 To write a book about the genocide of white people presupposes the existence of a distinct,
00:01:18.820 identifiable group of people that are white, and the existence, by contrast, of non-white
00:01:25.940 people. In other words, if what is called white is merely a sociological construction, then it
00:01:33.580 would be impossible to speak about white genocide in a meaningful sense beyond reflecting on the
00:01:39.760 end of certain customs and habits. If there are no white people, there could be no end of white 0.89
00:01:46.700 people, because whiteness was never a people to begin with, but instead, as some would claim, 0.81
00:01:52.540 a curated set of behaviors.
00:01:55.860 But we can speak of white people 0.63
00:01:57.880 because the existence of such a group
00:02:00.200 can be verified and measured empirically.
00:02:04.620 It is evidenced by their genetic makeup,
00:02:07.340 phenotypical expression, behavior,
00:02:10.260 and traits that meaningfully differ from other peoples.
00:02:14.300 In the pages of this prolegomena,
00:02:16.400 we will defend this framework we term race realism,
00:02:19.920 but add to it an explication of the spiritual component that elevates nations from mere shared
00:02:27.460 DNA to the spiritual connection of memory, soul, and place. Nations are never less than shared
00:02:36.700 biology, but extend above and beyond it. In this prolegomena, we defend race realism and 0.64
00:02:44.900 explicate the implications of not just biological descent, but souls and nations.
00:02:51.940 Rest assured, the eugenics of religion is not an argument for positive eugenics.
00:02:58.080 Eugenic programs that employ abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and population control as a means
00:03:05.360 of managing a given population are categorically evil and condemned in scripture.
00:03:10.960 But if a nation employs the death penalty, it is still, in effect, enforcing a form of eugenics. 0.61
00:03:19.380 As a result of executing a criminal, for example, that criminal does not get to have children. 0.67
00:03:25.040 His offspring have no chance to participate in the polis. 0.61
00:03:29.540 The point is not that religion always prescribes a positive eugenics program, actively culling undesirable humans, 0.58
00:03:36.980 but rather that, functionally, religions select for particular kinds of citizens
00:03:43.360 through its diet laws, moral code, capital punishment or lack thereof, marriage laws, and more.
00:03:52.640 We will argue in the last part of this prolegomena that this form of selection is inescapable
00:03:58.860 and shapes the core identity of a people across time.
00:04:02.780 If the traits that are passed down and selected for altruism, intelligence, self-control, height, stature, beauty, etc. were merely genetic, the logical solution absent ethics could be the forced and rigid selection for the best at the expense of the weak.
00:04:25.380 Indeed, a number of ancient societies practiced something close to this kind of selection process,
00:04:31.660 discarding infants that were imperfect and subjecting adolescents and young adults to harsh tests of conformity.
00:04:39.360 In Sparta, for example, later sources describe elders inspecting newborns and ordering those deemed deformed or weak to be exposed rather than reared,
00:04:49.800 while boys who were allowed to live then entered the Agogae,
00:04:54.400 a brutal state-run training system designed to harden and cull them into warriors.
00:05:00.260 In early Rome, the patria potestas, paternal power, of the father,
00:05:06.120 extended to the right to kill or expose a deformed infant,
00:05:09.440 and juristic tradition connected this to the provisions of the Twelve Tables.
00:05:15.160 In one particularly dark period in Athens under the legal code of Draco,
00:05:19.800 circa 621 BC, death was reportedly prescribed for nearly every offense, from murder down to petty
00:05:27.540 theft. The ancient European world built its more structured and orderly societies, in part,
00:05:33.760 through these practices that sacrificed and eliminated the vulnerable and undesirable.
00:05:40.920 This historical record grates against our modern sensibilities, both among the socially liberal 0.59
00:05:46.700 and the historically Christian. The instinctive Christian response to this kind of barbaric 1.00
00:05:52.520 determinism, though by now somewhat formulaic, is to affirm the imago dei, that is, the image,
00:06:00.460 imago, of God, dei, uniquely born by humans. Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas located this
00:06:09.820 image not just in the body, as if man's eyes, nose, ears, and hands were the only
00:06:15.920 literal imprints of God, but principally in the mind.
00:06:22.260 While in all creatures there is some kind of likeness to God, in the rational creature alone
00:06:28.260 we find a likeness of image, as we have explained above, whereas in other creatures we find a
00:06:35.240 likeness by way of a trace. Now the intellect or mind is that whereby the rational creature
00:06:41.720 excels other creatures. Wherefore, this image of God is not found even in the rational creature,
00:06:48.180 except in the mind. ST1 Q93 A6
00:06:55.640 In other words, man is valuable as the image of God, not simply by virtue of possessing a physical
00:07:04.420 body, but by possessing, even when fallen from a state of grace into a state of sin,
00:07:10.740 the distinctly spiritual attributes of God, such as reason and intellect, but also grace, mercy,
00:07:17.640 compassion, and love. In Christ these attributes are expressed as a product of the ontological
00:07:24.300 change of regeneration and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Christ restores the image of God
00:07:30.960 infall in man, but not fully until bodily resurrection. Salvation aside, this means
00:07:37.860 that the locus of what it means to be human, and indeed the very uniqueness of man, is not found
00:07:44.360 in the genetic composition of man as if it could be reduced to DNA-based pairs, but in his wholeness
00:07:51.340 as a physical and spiritual being. Man and woman are not valuable only because they can work,
00:07:59.900 reproduce, and obey laws, but because they possess the intellect and capacity to constrain
00:08:06.640 and exercise dominion over the created world. Animals cannot order systems larger than their
00:08:14.860 own nests or habitat. The 13th century German Dominican friar Meister Eckhart described the
00:08:22.120 spiritual substance of man as the little spark of the soul, zelunfunklein, a portion of each man
00:08:31.320 that was divinely sourced and the differentiator between man and the rest of creation. While
00:08:38.380 Eckhart was of course somewhat mystical, the description of the value and worth of the soul
00:08:43.360 is profound for drawing contrast between mankind and the animal kingdom. This theological truth
00:08:51.200 crushes the rigid, deterministic framing of pre-Christian societies that enshrine the rule
00:08:57.540 and even the tyranny of the strong over the weak. While Christianity does not invert this natural
00:09:04.420 order, it does sanctify it. There are still master-slave, husband-wife, superior-inferior 1.00
00:09:11.780 relations, but the relationship does not center on domination, subjugation, and exploitation of
00:09:19.160 the lesser. Husbands are rulers of their homes, but also love their wives as their own bodies.
00:09:26.160 The master has authority over the slave, but must deal with him honestly and pay him his due.
00:09:32.900 Kings or presidents are still owed obedience and respect, when appropriate, from their subjects,
00:09:39.240 but are also bound by a sense of noblesse oblige, French for nobility obligates,
00:09:45.880 that compels them to defend and honor them.
00:09:50.340 In this way, Christianity is not a cudgel that bludgeons the natural order.
00:09:55.700 It is not a tool for egalitarianism, despite attempts to weaponize it to that end.
00:10:01.120 But Christianity does elevate nature.
00:10:04.180 It raises nature from its barbaric, transactional tyranny, the default state, 0.86
00:10:09.840 to form societies and nations actually worth living in.
00:10:13.980 The strong still rule, but rule with virtue, strength, and wisdom for the genuine benefit of all.
00:10:21.160 This is only possible by affirming both the duality of man, body and soul, and the image of God bestowed on him, inherent worth.
00:10:31.700 If man is merely a beast for labor and woman merely for breeding, then there is no expectation of dignity and virtue.
00:10:38.680 But if each man and woman is categorically set apart from the rest of creation, elevated by the deposit of the soul and formed in the image of God, even despite sin, then man's relations in the home and the state contain the potential to transcend the pitiless state of nature.
00:11:00.320 As we will defend later, race and lineage still matter, but do not comprise the sum of man's value and identity.