What is William Blake's attitude towards Christianity and British society? Use two of his poems from the Songs of Innocence and Experience to support your answer.

In “London,” Blake attacks the poverty and inequality of British society, focusing specifically on the city of London. He says that everywhere he goes in London he sees “Marks of weakness, marks of woe.” He also describes how “the hapless Soldiers sigh” and points out that their blood runs “down Palace walls.” In other words, the rich send the poor to fight their wars for them, while they remain secure in the palaces and shed no blood themselves.
In “The Garden of Love,” Blake describes a chapel built in the middle of the eponymous garden, where he used to play as a boy. The chapel’s gates are closed, and there written above the door is “Thou shalt not.” In place of the flowers he remembers, there are now “tomb-stones where flowers should be.” The chapel in this poem symbolizes institutionalized, orthodox religion, which Blake considered overly prescriptive and antithetical to any genuine relationship or communion with God.
Blake, like many Romantic poets, thought that one could best commune with God through the natural world. The fact that the chapel in this poem destroys the natural world alludes to Blake’s belief that institutionalized, orthodox religion was a destructive rather than a positive influence.