To press the familiar hot buttons?

Does "to press the familiar hot buttons" mean "to trigger the reactions to the familiar sensitive questions"?

Background info:

Robert Gillooly shows how all the essential
features of the Jesus legend, including the star in the east, the virgin
birth, the veneration of the baby by kings, the miracles, the
execution, the resurrection and the ascension are borrowed - every
last one of them - from other religions already in existence in the
Mediterranean and Near East region. Flynn suggests that
Matthew's desire to fulfil messianic prophecies (descent from
David, birth in Bethlehem) for the benefit of Jewish readers came
into headlong collision with Luke's desire to adapt Christianity for
the Gentiles, and hence to press the familiar hot buttons of pagan
Hellenistic religions (virgin birth, worship by kings, etc.). The
resulting contradictions are glaring, but consistently overlooked by
the faithful.