According to newspaper accounts, it was a festive occasion. Barker even divorces himself from the more respectable skeptics by denying that Jesus of Nazareth ever lived. So much for their pitiful complaint about persecution. Not a thing. Atheists know nothing of their origin.
Atheists have no idea of any purpose for life.
Atheists are in a distressing fog as to the nature of human destiny. They can offer nothing but nothingness. They filled the grave and put sheaves of flowers on it, everything is over. It is a philosophy of despair and doom. Comment on this article.