Brian Cox, a british film star, criticizes religion for causing” all kinds of horror” on Monday.
During an , season of The Starting Line audio, the personal- described atheist- communist professional asserted that faith has hurt humans ‘ ability to face reality, contributing to their own” stupidity”.
” It’s all about this notion of God, the idea that there’s a God that takes care of us all”, he told Starting Line host Rich Leigh. ” There’s no such thing, does n’t happen, that’s not what it’s about. It’s about us, and we do n’t examine ourselves nearly enough”.
” We do n’t look at who we are”, he continued. ” We’re constantly looking outside of ourselves, instead of looking inside ourselves”.
” The phrase ‘ God ‘ yeah, is a conceit”, he said. ” It’s a terrible conceit that we do n’t really acknowledge”.
Cox, who portrays the loathsome billionaire media giant Logan Roy in the HBO original series Succession, called the Bible “one of the worst books ever.”
” It is not the reality, it’s a mythology”, he said. ” We’ve created that idea of God, and we’ve created it as a control issue, and it’s also a patriarchal issue… and it’s essentially patriarchal — we have n’t given enough scope to the matriarchy”.
Humans” simply have n’t evolved” to the point where we look inside ourselves to deal with our problems rather than trying to solve them with religion, he contended.
” Mortal beings are so shot, generally … because they’re but stupid”, he said.
Cox cited her mother’s battle with mental illness as evidenced by her devotion and spiritual convictions that were “always failing her.”
” She accepted what her religious belief had told her, rather than just state,’ No, remain an agnostic, be a barbarian, that’s fine, simply go with that,'” Cox recalled:
She lost, for a while, and then she got it back, which I thought was terrible, because I believe you can regain any kind of tree that you can hang onto because that tree happened to be her beliefs and it turned out well for her.
Religion has led us into” all kinds of horror”, he declared, referencing the Holocaust and the war in Ukraine and Gaza. ” The similar issues are being repeated repeatedly in belief systems that are wrong.”
He claimed that because of these flawed networks, which cause both Muslims and Jews, the Middle East conflict is “never going to go away.”
In the interview, Cox said he has found his responses to life’s major issues through acting, arguing that the “one real church” is the drama because it is” the temple of humanity”.
