What if the “Great Commission” wasn’t primarily about love or community but about conquest? I think it’s time we explore how Christianity’s most celebrated mandate became the ideological engine for colonialism, cultural erasure, and modern “savior” politics. And I also think it’s time for Christians to challenge themselves to imagine a form of community that’s built on solidarity instead of conversion!
For centuries, Western civilization has wrapped its worst atrocities in the language of supreme benevolence. We are taught to look at the ‘Great Commission’ of Matthew 28, the command to go and make disciples of all nations, as a beautiful blueprint for global love, charity, and connection.
But what if the most celebrated mandate in Christian history isn’t a message of community at all? What if it is actually the foundational operating system for global supremacy, cultural erasure, and cosmic colonialism?
In this episode, I bust through the beautiful stained glass image of the Great Commission to expose how five verses in the Gospel of Matthew provided the psychological and legal permission to conquer the world, and why mainstream believers are still running that exact same operating system today.
So, let’s talk about Cosmic Colonialism… in this episode of Afterthoughts!
