Decameron

I felt as though religion was a big theme found throughout the stories read in the decameron.  Christianity and Judaism are the two main religions.  In the first story, Ser Cepparello lies to a friar the day he dies and tricks him and many others into thinking about believing he was a good and holy man that had almost no confessions before his death.  When in reality he had plenty of sins and had never confessed in his whole life when he also lied and told him that he confesses once a week.  Because of this, he ends up becoming a Saint soon after his death.  This shows how gullible and welcoming the Christianity religion is.  In the second story, the Jew, Abraham is converted to Christianity religion after his friend Giannotto convinces him that it is a waste to follow judaism religion because he is such a well-mannered man.  Once Abraham sees how the clergy live in Rome, he decides that this is the religion he'd like to be apart of even though he doesn't like them and thinks god should condemn them all.  Yet he still gets baptized and changes over his religion to Christianity.