That is a stunning image. And yet, I reject your preceding conclusion. It is suffused with an anti-humaness that I am tempermentally, intellectually and spiritually unable to embrace. It is not so much a moral posture, in my opinion, as the physical posture of submission to a monstrous self-loathing---similar in many respects to the prayer posture of mohammedan men--a degrading, submissive anti-human posture; a posture that the Greeks loathed when they witnessed their Persian foes conducting their cultural rituals.
God did not become man in order to teach us to loath ourselves; still less to teach us to deform ourselves with fatalism and submissiveness. Further, I believe the idea of Jesus is as much an attempt by God to redeem himself as to redeem us. To rescue himself from the Grim Otherness which seems to please so many self-hating humans.
And yet, the news today reveals that the victims in Witchita died kneeling in submission; naked before their persecuters. So you may be correct. In which case I will proudly go down fighting, being wrong....