7. ‘The Christian religion and “Christian” morality are variously seen as stultifying and irrelevant to the complexities of modern experience. Religion serves to complicate and further frustrate the destines of central characters’ (Sanders, 1994:462). Examine this comment (made with reference to Thomas Hardy’s novels) with regards to two writers studied in this module. INTRODUCTION ‘The Christian religion and “Christian” morality are variously seen as stultifying and irrelevant to the complexities of modern experience. Religion serves to complicate and further frustrate the destines of central characters’ (Sanders, 1994:462). Before unpacking Sanders’ comment on Christianity and its morality, we first broadly define morality as an intuition that we ought to do that which is good, and ought not to do that which is bad (Kranak 2021). This is true for Christian fundamentalist morality where we ought to do that which God prescribes as 'good', while also encompassing the modern l...