A Thought on Church from TS Eliot

Why should men love the church? Why should they
Love her laws?
She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they
Would forget.
She is tender where they would be hard, and hard
Where they like to be soft.
She tells them of Evil and sin, and other unpleasant
Facts.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will
Need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.

~~TS Eliot "Choruses from 'The Rock'"