...or, as I suspected, you folks aren’t very well travelled or avoid those awful, evil Catholic churches when you do tour, or never crack open an art book.
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.