Brian Cox expressed his skepticism of religion in a new interview, saying religion holds humanity back as a tool for patriarchal control and calling the Bible “one of the worst books ever.”
The Succession star, 77, appeared in the latest edition of The Starting Line Podcastwhere he spoke to host Rich Leigh about a number of topics ranging from wealth distribution to religion and politics.
When asked by Leigh if religion is holding humanity back, Cox replied: “Oh significantly, yes – I think religion is holding us back because they are belief systems that are outside of ourselves.
“They’re not concerned with who we are, we’re dealing with, ‘Oh, if God says this and God does that, and you think, ‘Well, what is God?’ We created that idea of God, and we ‘We created it as a control problem, and it’s also a patriarchal issue… and it’s essentially patriarchal – we haven’t given enough space to matriarchy.’
The veteran actor elaborated on the issue, citing the biological differences between mothers and fathers.
Brian Cox, 77, expressed his skepticism of religion in a new interview, saying religion holds humanity back as a tool for patriarchal control and calling the Bible “one of the worst books ever.”
‘Motherhood is what is the real conditioning of our lives, our fathers don’t condition ourselves because they are too selfish, but our mothers have to, because they have an umbilical cord – that’s what the umbilical cord is about…’
Cox continued, “Even though it’s excised, there’s an umbilical relationship with your child, and women have that, men don’t, they’re just sperm banks.”
Cox said that overturning a patriarchal approach to society would be a challenge, adding that the stories underlying this approach can be traced back to the Bible.
He said, ‘We do that because we have to honor them and we have to give them their place and we’re against that because all our… it’s Adam and Eve, I mean the propaganda goes all the way back – the Bible is one of the worst books ever, for me, from my point of view.
“Because it starts with the idea that Adam’s rib – you know that [from] Rib of Adam, this woman was created, and they will believe it because they are stupid enough.”
Cox admitted that while spiritual people need something to guide them, he believes the Bible is not the answer.
“They need it, but they don’t need to hear lies, they need some kind of truth, and that’s not the truth. It’s not the truth, it’s a mythology you know… it doesn’t really have to do with what women understand better than anyone else.”
After Leigh noted that it could be taken as a high level of thinking to abolish religion, Cox responded: “I don’t think it’s that high – I think it’s a level of understanding.”
The Succession star appeared on the latest edition of The Starting Line Podcast, where he spoke to host Rich Leigh about a number of topics ranging from the hit TV series to religion and politics
When asked by Leigh if religion is holding humanity back, Cox replied: “Oh significantly, yes – I think religion is holding us back because they are belief systems that are outside of ourselves.”
Cox admitted that while spiritual people need something to guide them, he believes the Bible is not the answer
Cox referred to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and the rising death toll in explaining his stance on the issue.
“It’s higher than killing someone, and killing someone in this unnecessary pursuit of something that doesn’t serve us at all,” he said. ‘And the cruelest thing is these children… who have been slaughtered by Hamas and the more children there are like that, you know… it goes into the thousands, probably we are now up to 5,000 children and killing the unborn these hospitals.
“I mean really, it’s unbelievable that we’re doing this… even Hamas is doing well. “It’s all going a bit too far now, isn’t it?”
He added, “I mean, people are so stupid – they’re so stupid – and they can’t see the writing on the wall, you know.”
Earlier in the chat, Cox, a self-described socialist, expressed his cynicism about humanity while talking about the topic of wealth distribution. He said that “hopefully” billionaires will no longer exist in the future, but he was not necessarily optimistic about the evolution of society.
“Unfortunately, we’re still kind of frogs, you know, we’re still those frogs, we’re not adults, we’re not adults yet,” Cox said. ‘We’re still not even past the baby phase of our existence.
“You know, it’s – human beings are actually so damned; Basically, they are damned and they have been and they don’t do anything about it and they continue to be damned because they are so stupid. That’s really the thing about humanity, it’s so deeply, deeply stupid.’
Cox referred to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and the rising death toll in explaining his stance on the issue
Cox pointed out the “terrible” series of events in the aforementioned Middle East conflict, saying, “You know they’ll sort it out, but it’ll never go away because of belief systems – belief systems that don’t serve equanimity.” ‘
The Emmy-winning actor is coming off a career-defining role as media mogul Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession
Cox pointed out the “terrible” series of events in the aforementioned Middle East conflict, saying, “You know they’ll sort it out, but it’ll never go away because of belief systems – belief systems that don’t serve equanimity.” .
“It’s all about this idea of God, that idea that there’s a God who takes care of all of us – there’s no such thing, that doesn’t happen, that’s not the point.
He added: “It’s about us and we don’t examine ourselves nearly enough, we don’t look at who we are. We always look outside ourselves, instead of inward.’