Tim Allen doesn’t take faith lightly.
Over the past year, the comedian has taken a deep dive into the Bible.
“Finished the entire Bible,” the “The Santa Clause” actor recently wrote on X. “It’s been a 13-month journey, word by word, page by page, without skimming.”
The 71-year-old said he was “humbled, enlightened and amazed by what I read and what I learned. I will rest and meditate as much as I can. I will start it again.”
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But the “Home Improvement” star hasn’t always been so sure of his beliefs.
Learning about the cruelties of life from an early age
He struggled with it for years after his father was killed as a child by a drunk driver.
“My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was 11 years old,” Allen said Mike Rowe on his podcast last fall. “Fortunately, he was the only one who died. But he died in my mother’s lap. My other two brothers were thrown around the car and many children were injured.”
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Allen, who had not been in the car at the time of the crash, said he returned to his home after spending the day with a friend “knowing something terrible had happened” and was praying and negotiating with God about it.
“I said, ‘I’m going to eat vegetables.’ Whatever as a kid. “Just – whatever is going on – this is terrible. I’ll do my homework,’ or whatever,” he explained of his attempt to negotiate with God at such a young age. “And none of that happened. I went to the house. There were police and my uncle was there and said, ‘Man up. You know, your mother needs you right now. So don’t cry. None of that.'”
Allen said everyone around him told him his father was “in a better place.”
Tim Allen in a church scene from “Last Man Standing” in 2017. (Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Television Network)
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“My first reaction was, ‘Why are we in this hole? Why don’t we just start there?’ And there was never any response.”
Allen explained that as a result, his “pain” and “discomfort” over his father’s death and faith “never ceased.”
“For years I didn’t care,” he said. “That whole process made me start asking questions and usually not get answers.”
But his shop teacher at school told him to stop asking questions and figure out what he wanted could Doing. “’That’s all you can do,’” he said of his teacher’s advice to take control of his life. “That’s what I used to like about shop teachers.”
“I don’t know what political, religious beliefs I really have, because the more I look at the emanator, I tag it, I make names, and then I go through this whole thing,” he explained of the way he perceives God. “He’s sitting in a big chair and has a beard for some reason. It’s like Father Time.’
He joked that he felt like this emanator was saying to him, “You have no idea how big I am. How insignificant you are and yet you have the ability to say, ‘No, I think I get it.'”
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A ‘remarkable’ relationship with God
In 2011, Allen said ABC News he had felt that he had had a “curious” relationship with God after his father’s death.
Tim Allen in a scene from 1994’s The Santa Clause. (Walt Disney Photos/Getty Images)
He said he wondered for years whether his father might still be alive if he had prayed harder or done something different.
“For years I just didn’t like this idea of God, the church,” he admitted. “(I was) still a churchgoer, but continually a cynic.”
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But he said he soon began to see God as “The Builder.”
“I always ask… The builder, what did you want me to do?” Allen said. ‘And I do indeed ask. But you have to be prepared for the answer.”
He added that he doesn’t believe humanity can be a coincidence.
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“Whoever built me, this is too much, too weird that it happened by accident,” he said. “It didn’t happen by accident.”
Tim Allen said he struggled with his faith for years after his father’s death. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
A wake-up call
His arrest for selling cocaine in his 20s was also a wake-up call in his life.
“When I went to prison, reality hit me so hard that it took my breath away, took away my attitude, took away my strength,” he said. told Esquire in 2011.
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He said that at that moment, when he felt suicidal, the “comic” in him appeared and “saved” his life.
Forgiving his father’s murderer
And last September, inspired by Charlie Kirk’s widow’s ability to forgive her husband’s alleged killer, Allen said he wanted to forgive the drunk driver who killed his father.
“When Erika Kirk said the words about the man who killed her husband: ‘That man… that young man… I forgive him. That moment struck me deeply,” he wrote on Peace be with you all.”
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Bible journey begins
In August 2024, Allen admitted that he had never taken the time to “really read the Bible.”
At the time, he said he was almost done “reading the Jerusalem Bible, the Old Testament and almost done with the Prophets. Then the New Testament. Amazing so far and not at all what I expected.”
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Tim Allen in a scene from 1995’s “Home Improvement.” (US broadcasters via Getty Images)
In October 2024, he updated fans on “The challenge in reading this book is how do I translate words that the Eternal expresses into the temporal. I need a Snickers,” he joked.
A year ago he said he had completed the Old Testament.
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“After almost a year I finished reading the entire Old Testament and the experience of rereading, the dedicated focus and not wandering off have made this a humbling, overwhelming experience,” he admitted. ‘What a treasure. Three Days in the New Testament.”
In June he revealed that he was now reading the Gospel of Paul. ‘A Roman Jew familiar with Plato, Stoicism and other Greek schools of thought. I’m amazed in seven pages!’
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Recently, Allen told Bill Maher further his podcast that he studied what Paul said about the law being invented to “develop sin.” Without law you don’t know what is sinful…And what you are going to discover is the cycle of ignorance with philosophy.”
He admitted, “That’s where I’ve been for the last 20 years.”
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