There is no reason to get nasty and insulting and try to tell me that I am not well traveled enough to be able to get over my revulsion at something that would revolt most Americans or that I know nothing of art.
If you look at this thread, it is clear from the defenses offered, that some Catholics see this Catholic shrine to the dead and Gold, as weird and bizarre as well.
Even you are defending it as something exotic and European, not American, something that a good ol American Christian conservative would have to become more worldly to learn to accept.
You don’t have to accept anything. I just find this fear and revulsion of decorated dead bodies, skeletons, death, etc. exhibited on this thread, childish.
And sadly, I have met born-agains on Free Republic who have told me that they’ve never visited a Catholic Church while touring Europe. And they were not talking about ancient corpses; they were talking about the Sistine Chapel!