Interesting how things affect us as children. We didn't have any religious art in our house. I find the statue endearing. We also have a bas-relief of the Holy Family in our kitchen, crucifixes throughout the house, etc.
When I was a kid, all I knew about the Lord was what I heard in the church I started attending at about the age of sixteen. There, I learned I was going to Hell unless I made "a decision for the Lord." And if I didn't make the right decision, didn't have just enough water come into contact with my body, didn't read the right translation of the Bible, didn't come up with just the right answer on the 'pre-trib,' 'mid-trib,' 'post-trib' test, then I obviously HADN'T made a "true" decision for Christ.