“Christianity isn’t always about prosperity and abundance” is some elite-tier American Protestantism. Orange County itself summoned this sentiment into the world. Just naked prosperity gospel, which should hardly be surprising, but what a bunch of sore winners.
I especially appreciate the orange jumpsuits, which were used by ISIS to allude to countless Muslims illegally rendered into the US torture program. Of course the overwhelming number of victims of ISIS were Shiites, Sunnis who refused allegiance and Zoroastrians, but some Coptic christians got caught up in the CIA’s war against Assad ISIS rebellion and so that’s all that matters and now, in their minds, christians are the primary victims of religious violence worldwide.
And of course the Coptic christians depicted in this painting effectively practice an entirely different religion than this practice of self-worship which most American christians practice. To pretend that these people died for the same things which Nick Merlino believes in is a deep insult to their deaths.