I think there’s just not as much structure as the spacing would suggest. Image shows a milieu of religious expression including but also beyond Christianity across Europe. Character ignores all of the counter examples and claims there’s only one.
Chap at the top is claiming "Christianity is part of European identity" but the image contrasts the pagan religions of Europe 2,000 years ago (you can throw in the Celts, Romans and Greeks too) on the left with Christianity which has it's roots in various Middle Eastern religions (Judaism, Zoroastrianism, etc) on the right.
"Elaha" (ܐܠܗܐ) is the Aramaic for "God" and "Alaha" (ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ) is the same word in Syriac (both languages used by the early Church), which is similar to other Semitic languages like Hebrew (Elohim) and Arabic (Allah).
The meme is basically making fun of the fact that Christianity, as an evangelizing religion, necessarily is not core piece of any culture it interacts with, but a colonial replacement for already existent local traditions.
Europe was majority pagan until several centuries after Christ had come and gone, and that demographic balance was mostly tipped by wiping the alternatives out.
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