Is Christianity a Religion of Sorrow or Joy?

Eliot responds to critics of Christianity

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We’ve taken a long time in this series on Eliot’s wonderful (and yet, for him, mediocre) poem, “Choruses from The Rock” (see parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight), and here we come to an objection Eliot has heard raised against the Church. In the modern world with its liberation and autonomy and d…