I’d presume the theology is this: Christ’s torturers were acting on behalf of the Empire, but behind that system the satanic forces of evil were at work. And behind that evil system was the grander purposes that God was enacting through the unwitting cooperation of the Evil One and his minions. So, relative to Abu Ghraib, is this guy saying that the American Empire isn’t really its own cause, that a deeper evil is moving it, and yet this evil American puppet of Satan is still acting as an ironic agent of God’s will, that God has some greater purpose in mind by allowing those prisoners to be tortured by the American guards? That’s a disturbing aesthetic.