Status Updates From Silas Marner

I feel like the author might be poking fun at Christians a bit.

- rip Wildfire, you deserved better 🐎
- Silas, you would love a ring doorbell
- (in light of me reading this together with Persuasion for my MA studies) Godfrey is sort of Capt. Wentworth if he was a gambling loser with a secret opium addicted wife ... i guess?
- yes Nancy, you shouldn't marry that man
- i love old man takes care of young child trope everyone say "thank you Miss Eliot"

"The prevarication and white lies which a great mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie."

Why did she write this sentence in this way