Easter -- -The Real April Fools' Day?

'Certainly it would be nice to believe there is life after death, just as it would be nice to believe there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, a fairy that leaves money under my pillow when I lose a tooth, or a bunny that slips into my house every spring, leaving sweet replicas of himself wrapped in colorful cellophane.' The Apostle Paul makes it absolutely clear: If Christ is not risen, our preaching is empty, your faith futile, those who have died in Christ have perished, and we are of all men the most pitiable.