Not one substantive word arguing against anything Eagleton said about Jesus, despite the title and the opening paragraph.

Jesus lived in world of absolute Roman control, and a Rome ruled by heredity. More locally, he faced the Pharisees and Sadducees (i.e. the Maccabee descendants and the earlier Cohanim/Levinim priestly class, pardon my unprofessional terminology), both hereditary.

Jesus said the local rulers were a bunch of hypocrites. In particular, he criticized parents for not killing their children (I didn’t bring up the abortion debate).

Even if he didn’t mean it, he was a revolutionary in the world of religious belief.