That's it , many have steeples which are easily converted to gallows.
Or the altar is ideal for strapping down and injecting at 11 am Sunday morning. Burying alive is an attractive religious rite. Laymen can perform the honours for the reverend father bless him.

Christianity can take credit for Hitler? Death penalty for paedophiles? Some posters get more naive by the day. Or should that be 'nuttier' by the day.

The magi priests were linked with bribes , drugs and the young boy. His mother was handed gold and the drugs are suspicious: Frankincense helps relieve chronic stress and anxiety. Myrrh has also been recommended as an analgesic for toothaches and can be used in linament for bruises, aches, and sprains. The 3 wise men discussed the boy with Herod who had his own deviancy. Herod the Great was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (Kasher and Witztum 2007:431) and ordered mass infanticide , paedocida, and the act would be paedocidium of 2 year old boys. The star of Bethlehem led the drug-pushers from the east and is the main suspect and was probably a Media celebrity. Persian king Cyrus' clothing is described by Xenophon : “A purple tunic shot with white , trousers of scarlet dye about his legs, and a mantle all of purple.” King Darius III : "The attire of the king was beyond all else ; a purple-edged tunic woven about a white centre, a cloak of cloth of gold, ornamented with gold ; from a golden belt, with which he was girt woman fashion, he had hung a scabbard which was a single gem."

Jesus survived the abuse, appeared at the royal commission and was executed.

Do the 'Philosophical arguments about religion at Christmas' have anything to say about Indigenous religions/spirituality?

Wandjina of Kimberley and Lightning Brothers of Katherine NT are dated at 400-600 years old. They wear long striped robes and pointed turbans resembling Indonesian-Thailand Buddhist deities with a sword.

The Church in south India probably influenced the Matsya Purana text of Tamil Nadu's Pandya dynasty about the flood and known in Indonesia. Its details are like the Pundu legend of creating the Darling-Murray rivers.

leoj ; no I didn't mention indigenous religious belief specifically. I should have. Insofar as I'm arguing religious liberties of course that extends to indigenous peoples as well. And I think some indigenous beliefs have real symbolic meaning also.