{"id":2684990,"date":"2026-10-15T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shock-hollywood-mega-producer-admits-that-once-societies-abandon-god-they-turn-to-authoritarians\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:51:20","slug":"shock-hollywood-mega-producer-admits-that-once-societies-abandon-god-they-turn-to-authoritarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shock-hollywood-mega-producer-admits-that-once-societies-abandon-god-they-turn-to-authoritarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock: Hollywood Mega Producer Admits That Once Societies Abandon God, They Turn to Authoritarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshock-hollywood-mega-producer-admits-that-once-societies-abandon-god-they-turn-to-authoritarians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2684990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood producer Chuck lorre shared on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; that societies abandoning belief in God tend to shift toward tyranny, comparing removing faith to replacing it with oppressive regimes like communism or fascism. He emphasized that losing foundational beliefs destabilizes societal structure, likening faith to a tent pole that supports the entire structure. Lorre also discussed his personal journey, including a decade in scientology aimed at healing his father, which ended with his and his wife\u2019s departure and the subsequent loss of friendships due to their exit. Additionally, he highlighted the importance of seeking spiritual meaning beyond material pursuits, despite concerns about the term &#8220;spirituality&#8221; being viewed skeptically. Lorre&#8217;s career includes creating popular TV shows and receiving numerous accolades,and he has openly spoken about his past involvement with Scientology and his reflections on faith and societal stability.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood producer Chuck Lorre told Joe Rogan on Tuesday that societies which forsake God swap Him for tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen civilizations or cultures took God out of the picture, they replaced it with a communist party, with a fascist dictator,\u201d Lorre said on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same idea: \u2018Organize around me. It doesn\u2019t matter if I\u2019m right or not, organize around me.\u2019 And people will. And if you take that away from them, they get angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMe3rYJi-DE?si=5jAZMbVbIRXYhpDF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He compared d belief to a tent pole that holds up the entire tent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt freaks them out,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause it\u2019s like the tent pole. That tent pole moves, the tent comes down and everything, you know, if you believe that this is the truth and someone says, \u2018No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s bulls***,\u2019 everything else you believe is in fair play. Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/10\/14\/big-bang-theory-producer-chuck-lorre-a-society-that-abandons-god-will-turn-to-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/big-bang-theory-producer-says-societies-who-abandon-god-drift-toward-tyranny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> both reported on the exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chuck Lorre Warns Godless Societies Risk Authoritarianism<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood producer warned on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week that abandoning God can leave societies vulnerable to communism and fascism.<\/p>\n<p>Read: https:\/\/t.co\/Jp7Deyg2Za https:\/\/t.co\/pIMjhvQfEL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Truth Media (@RealTruth) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealTruth\/status\/2110664737440845830?\">October 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later in the conversation, Lorre said fame, adulation, and fancy cars are \u201cnot the real solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real solution \u2014 I\u2019m going to say it and then regret it \u2014 but the real solution is a spiritual solution. You have to find something beyond this world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan asked why he would regret it, and joked that it was because Lorre lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Lorre said he did not want to be associated with \u201cnew age BS,\u201d but that he knew no other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I do know that in my own life, seeking a spiritual solution \u2014 not finding it, but the act of seeking it \u2014 there\u2019s some salvation in that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan said there was nothing silly about it, and that the term \u201cspirituality\u201d had been co-opted by people considered \u201cflaky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lorre agreed that others had given the word a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>Lorre is the creator and executive producer behind \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d \u201cTwo and a Half Men,\u201d \u201cYoung Sheldon,\u201d \u201cMom,\u201d and earlier hits including \u201cRoseanne\u201d and \u201cDharma &#038; Greg,\u201d according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0521143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has received multiple Emmy nominations and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He released a memoir, \u201cSitcom,\u201d the same day as the appearance with Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>Lorre wrote in the memoir that he had spent a decade in Scientology and at one point thought the church \u201ccould heal\u201d his dying father.<\/p>\n<p>After he and his then-wife left the organization, friends stopped speaking to them.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that the church usually pursues people who quit, \u201cimploring and\/or threatening them to return,\u201d but only if they have money. \u201cWe were so broke, no one noticed we were gone,\u201d the passage said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/chuck-lorre-scientology-roseanne-brett-butler-big-bang-1236910668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cBig Bang Theory\u201d creator Chuck Lorre says he spent 10 years in Scientology and once believed the church \u201ccould heal\u201d his dying father.<\/p>\n<p>When Lorre and his then-wife left Scientology, their friends cut ties with them. But Lorre says the church never tried to bring them back because they were broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe church is known to chase members who leave, imploring and\/or threatening them to return,\u201d he writes in his new book \u201cSitcom: A Memoir.\u201d \u201cTurns out this is only true if the departing thetans have any money. We were so broke, no one noticed we were gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/t.co\/lHJdpQCIqv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2110122695228584093?\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Last month, at a charity gala in Los Angeles, Lorre called First Lady Melania Trump a \u201cYugoslavian escort,\u201d called President Donald Trump a \u201cRussian asset,\u201d and joked about the idea of the president having a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>The White House told him to \u201cseek psychiatric help,\u201d Breitbart reported.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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