Raised Catholic in the 50's, in Reno, Nevada. I went to a grade school run by nuns who were expelled from Castro's Cuba. I remember the "living rosary" wherein each kid had a 40 watt bulb, a different color for each ten "Hail Mary's", strung around the church like an opporunity for mass-electrocution. With hands smoldering from the hot bulbs, a recitation of religious kitsch...