The gospel of Mark is reproduced almost in entirety in the gospel of Matthew with original greek misspellings and grammatical errors corrected. Luke, also, contains verbatim much of what is written in Mark. The conclusion that the authors of Matthew and Luke had Mark in front of them when they...
Speak for yourself if that's what you think about the value of existing and being alive. Most atheists I know are enriched by the fact that they are fully experiencing the one existence they will ever get, not diluting it by having one eye fixed permanently on a fictitious afterlife.
When an...