""Angels with dirty faces.. To recall my youth.""

Weird and scary- I dont recall any such dark and dirty angels from my youth.

In fact, that sounds more like a Dickens novel. No wonder you are such a serious and vocal religious sceptic, (though I gather educated, wealthy, and apparently well-endowed and even well-linked). It really ain't right to expose a youth to a dirty-faced angel. You escaped the stigma, but, others were likely not so lucky.
:)