I think you’re a bit hard on the person who said the church came off as fanatically “happy.” Maybe you missed the
“Fanatical” bit, or maybe you wrote the piece in a hurry. The person’s comment reminded me of your article about attending a funeral and being accosted by someone who oozed a kind of holy-paste-over-suffering fanaticism, appealing to your vanity (which you wisely saw right through). This reviewer seems to have had a very similar experience to yours. To a sensitive soul (aka someone with anxiety) faux happiness wears like a cheese grater on the nervous system.