Hi ewrgall,
>> How many a holy and obsequious teare
Hath deare religious love stolne from mine eye,
Here Shakespeare openly says that he gets teary eyed over religious things. My God! Caleb! Why do you have such a problem with this??? <<
This is a good example of an interpretive error which I think you make on several occasions: whenever Shakespeare uses religious terminology, you assume that he is expressing a religious point of view. But Shakespeare uses such terms metaphorically. He is writing within a tradition of love-poetry that conventionally applies religious terms to love situations, partly to indicate the intensity of feelings involved and partly as a subtle mockery of how seriously lovers take themselves. It's not about religion, it's conventional love-poetry.
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