THANK YOU SO MUCH to the American Humanist Association. I'm really thrilled by the award and thrilled by your lobbying efforts to build a political presence for a group that is, unfortunately, the one group left in America that most people feel they can openly disparage and despise in public life. There was a movie that came out a number of years ago called The Truman Show with Jim Carrey about a man brought up entirely inside of a reality television show. His whole world is completely fabricated, but so seamless and so all-encompassing that he has no way to know that he's been placed in this world by an ego-maniacal television producer. I often compare the orchestrators of the movement that I'm writing about, the movement I call "Christian nationalism" to the producers in The Truman Show. They have created an alternative reality and they want all of us to live inside of it.
