in and out of focus - Crucifex? Loving-kindness? Churchianity?

This image from flickr puts the celtic crosses of an Irish westcoast churchyard in focus against the distant Atlantic sky. So sharply are the facsimile Roman death machines in focus that the true meaning and aspirational quality of being a Christ follower and God seeker becomes blurry by comparison. They say the funeral and burial customs are for the living, rather than the dead. So then does this display primarily refer to a moment in time when the bereaved show their belonging and conformity and consent of the organized religion of the place? Or it is all relatively unimportant to those who dwell on the heart of Christ's example; that is, to engage in loving-kindness with strangers as with friends and enter into mutual aid and fellowship? If the living see that message as primary, then the formal elements of grave stones, Order of Worship (liturgy), and "Sunday Best" clothes when attending the events at the church building all become comparatively unimportant. But if one's relationship to God the Creator and all-knowing, loving parent is built of material, tactile things like expressing one's high respect for the sacred memory of the crucified Son of Man, Son of God then this scene of well-crafted stones and carefully expressed rituals and status will be uppermost in waking consciousness of the bereaved at the time of death and in the years that follow.

In summary, it is arrangement of bodies, memories, and markers mostly for the bodies of the deceased, the hearts of the bereaved, the eyes of one's peers, the consideration of the Almighty, or the tacit acknowledgement of the Organized Religious Structures? All these things may be true at the same time, but perhaps only one of those meanings is uppermost for people at the time, and perhaps the same also for people now many generations since the time of separation and burial.