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, while the heathen within--the Jew--was relegated to second-class citizenship. All non-Christian faiths were consigned to the category of "godless",…