Religious Hypocrisy in Renaissance England.
Date Submitted: 07/21/2004 11:37:31
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 13 pages (3448 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 13 pages (3448 words)
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, …
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… 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
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