Today is Easter Sunday, one of the two times of the year (Christmas being the other one of course) when Christians get past their obsession with the doom and gloom of original sin and death and hell, and look on the bright side of life, seeing in the resurrection of Jesus a new beginning and hope for the future.

Of course, it is possible to see that same bright side even in the worst of times and trouble without the delusions of a physical resurrection or an afterlife, as this cheerful song from Life of Brian reminds us.