Religious Hypocrisy in Renaissance England.

Godly Hypocrisy: Renaissance Christians in Actions and Words As Illustrated by the Plays of Wm. Shakespeare "If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute..." During the Renaissance, men were willing to fight and die for their religion. Wars were waged to defeat the "pagan empires" of the East, …showed first 75 words of 3448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3448 total… profess that we know God, but by works we deny Him. For a beatitude doth not consist in the knowledge of divine things, but in a divine life; for the devils know them better than men...We all (in effect) become comedians in religion: and while we act in gesture and voice divine virtues, in all the course of our lives we renounce in our persons the parts that we play..." --Sir Walter Raleigh