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POPSTO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE SHOULD BE THE QUESTION.
The phrase "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, This verse sums up the debate over RELIGION, GOD, AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION to a T... To a T to me anyway... I believe (yes I do) the whole debate is anchored in the fear of dying or the fear of not existing but whether you believe or not believe, CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? To be or not to be, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life, MORE AT: ht