Thursday, October 15, 2026 · Independent editorial

Chuck Lorre says cultures that took God out turned to tyrants

“When civilizations or cultures took God out of the picture, they replaced it with a Communist party, with a fascist dictator,” Chuck Lorre said on Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, according to Alana Mastrangelo-Wrask at Breitbart News, and when that sentence comes from the man behind The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men and not from a Sunday school teacher or a Republican stump speech it ought to stop every Christian voter in America long enough to ask what kind of country we are choosing on November 3.

Breitbart reports that Lorre went on to say, “It’s the same idea: ‘Organize around me. It doesn’t matter if I’m right or not, organize around me.’ And people will,” and then warned, “And if you take that away from them, they get angry” before adding that it “freaks them out” because faith is “like the tent pole” and then in his telling “That tent pole moves, the tent comes down and everything”. Yahoo Entertainment carried the same exchange in its own transcription, reporting that Lorre, 73, said “it’s an organizing element that no other animal does,” and noted that he was raised Jewish before joining the Church of Scientology and later embracing Buddhism.

Let us be clear about what Lorre did and did not say, because honesty is a Christian virtue before it is a journalistic one. Yahoo reports that Lorre said it doesn’t matter whether a particular religion is “true”, and Breitbart reports he also said “the real solution is a spiritual solution. You have to find something beyond this world” and that he did not want to be associated with “new age” nonsense. Breitbart further notes that just last month Lorre called First Lady Melania Trump a “Yugoslavian escort” at a Los Angeles gala, so nobody should mistake him for a MAGA convert or a church deacon, and that is exactly what makes his warning worth hearing.

Here is the opinion part, and we label it as opinion. A Hollywood producer who does not share our creed just stumbled onto something the church has been saying since the apostles stood before the Sanhedrin and told the rulers of their day that they ought to obey God rather than men, which is that when a people stops bowing to the living God it does not stop bowing, it simply finds a new altar, and in the last century those altars were a party headquarters and a dictator’s balcony. The twentieth century is a long graveyard of regimes that tried to push God out of public life, and Lorre’s tent-pole picture fits the Bible’s own warning that unless the Lord builds the house the builders labor in vain.

That is why Christian first is not a slogan for us. The founders did not hand Americans a government that gives us our rights, they wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with them, and once a culture forgets the Creator the state could start acting like it was the one handing out rights and taking them back. Religious liberty, the freedom of a pastor to preach the whole counsel of God from his pulpit, the right of parents to raise their children in the faith without a school board overruling them, and the protection of the unborn child who bears God’s image all rest on that one tent pole, and if it moves the rest of the tent could come down with it.

American second means we take the warning seriously as citizens and not just as worshipers. A free republic could survive a lot of bad policy, but it may not survive a people who have nothing above the government to appeal to, because then whoever holds power gets to say “organize around me” and there is no higher court left to answer him. Christians who vote are not imposing a theocracy when they ask candidates to respect churches and conscience, they are protecting the one space where the state is told that it is not God.

Republican third means the GOP does not get a free pass on any of this. A party that wins the votes of believers and then treats faith as a fundraising theme instead of a first freedom could find those voters staying home, and any candidate of any party who wants Christian support should be asked plainly where he stands on religious liberty, on life, on the family and on parents’ rights, and he should answer in words and in votes. We will judge the Republicans by the same Book we judge the Democrats by, and we would rather lose an election honestly than win one by baptizing a platform that is not Christ’s.

So listen to the sitcom king, not because he is a prophet but because even a man who calls himself a seeker can see that a nation without God starts looking for a strongman. On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, walk into the booth having prayed first, read your Bible second and the campaign mailers a distant third, and cast a vote that keeps the tent pole standing, because the alternative to one nation under God is not freedom, it is one nation under somebody else.

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