Determine whether King Henry is more of a Christian or a politician?

Considering only King Henry’s response to Fluellen at in Act 3 Scene 6 Lines 108-14

King Henry: We would have all such offenders so cut off, and we here give express charge that in our marches through the country there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language. For when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.