« Finished the entire Bible, » « The Santa Clause » actor wrote on X recently. « it’s been a 13 month word by word page by page no skimming journey. »
The 71-year-old said he was « Humbled, enlightened and amazed at what I read and what I learned. I will rest and meditate on so much. I will begin it again. »
But the « Home Improvement » star hasn’t always been so sure of his beliefs.
Learning about life’s cruelties at an early age
He struggled with it for years after his father was killed by a drunk driver when he was a child.
« My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was 11 years old, » Allen told Mike Rowe on his podcast last fall. « Luckily, he was the only one killed. But he died in my mother’s lap. My other two brothers were thrown around the car, a lot of kids were hurt. »
Allen, who hadn’t been in the car during the crash, said he went back to his house after spending the day with a friend « knowing something terrible had happened » and he was praying and bargaining with God over it.
« I said, ‘I will eat vegetables.’ Whatever as a kid. ‘Just make — whatever’s going on — this is terrible. I will do my homework,’ or whatever, » he explained of his attempt to bargain with God at such a young age. « And none of that happened. I get to the house. There’s police and my uncle was there and said, ‘Man up. You know, your mom needs you right now. So, no crying. None of that.’ »
« My first reaction was, ‘Then why are we in this s—hole? Why don’t we just start there?’ And it never got answered. »
