[CobaltBlue]

It is sacred art. It's religiously motivated, of religious themes, in a religious place (church). Your sarcasm is unwarranted.

[expat_panama]

It is sacred art. It's religiously motivated,

the article said:

"It was built by Ohlone slave labor,''

Both statement may be true, but interaction between the western and indigenous cultures in the Americas is now more legend than history.  The party line may have changed from "putting pants on the savages" to "enslavement of nobility", but with this find there's a lot more evidence of religious motivation than forced enslavement.