It’s a rich response - too much in it to reply to at once. To start with though, I wondered about this paragraph:

Andrew, that is simply not honest and you’ve overlooked why Jesus opposed the Jewish iniquity. He was not upset at Jews rather than Rome, he was upset at their cooperation with the Empire. Jewish leaders had joined the Empire and neglected its task. Jesus stood in opposition to the values of Empire. He protested the temple, not because the temple is a bad idea, but because the temple had become an Empire and a tool of the larger Empire. He echoed the prophetic voices that came before him as they protested the imperial leanings of the temple. His enemy is imperialism in all its forms. I think you are picking up the residual effects of his protest and mistaking it for apathy about Rome.

I would stress that I do think that there is a strong anti-imperialist theme in the New Testament. But working on this review I did come to wonder what form it actually takes in the Gospels - and even if it is there at all. What would you point to as evidence that Jesus explicitly and directly opposed imperialism? Is there any reference to Rome in the context of the temple sayings and actions? In making use of Jeremiah’s complaint about the temple he attacks a corrupt hierarchy and sacerdotal system, but empire functions in the prophetic narrative as the force by which corrupt Israel will be judged. It seems to me that Jesus follows basically the same story-line.

You seem pretty convinced that the anti-imperialist theme is there - but where exactly? Where does Jesus say that he is upset with their cooperation with the empire?