“However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”
Wow. The level of ignorance of Scripture is amazing. The lack of clear thinking is also amazing.
Farther down in the interview, the outreach he favors is one of primarily service, ie, feet washing, as opposed to conversion which he sees is prone to colonialism. The upshot is that no culture is better than the other, I suppose, and that missionaries must not seek to upgrade third worlders. That’s a vast improvement over what the Spaniards did to Central American indians, but swings too far in the direction of “give ‘em Jesus, but no western civ.”