Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous aphorism about the death of God was a diagnostic remark, not a celebration: 












Human society was going to have big problems in the 20th century, observed the melancholy German, 













…because, as he observed, even people who claimed to be guided by Christian morality didn’t actually believe in it anymore. 











You couldn’t come up with a more spectacular example than Donald Trump and his sanctimonious supporters on the Christian right, of course, but the real problem is even bigger than that.











There are facts out there about how Trump was elected in 2016, 

…but some people will never accept those facts even as they become aware they are, in fact, undeniable facts.


It's not just God that's dead, but reality itself.  

And of course, ...irony is dead too.