Scottish film star Brian Cox on Monday accused religion of leading humanity to “all kinds of terror”.
Monaka episode In his podcast The Starting Line, the actor, who calls himself an atheist and socialist, argues that religion undermines people’s ability to face reality and contributes to their own “stupidity.” did.
“It’s all about the concept of God, the idea that there’s a God who takes care of us all,” he told Starting Line host Rich Lee. “That’s not going to happen, that’s not going to happen, that’s not the issue. It’s about us, but we haven’t examined ourselves enough.”
“We don’t see who we are,” he continued. “We always look outside ourselves, not inside ourselves.”
“The word ‘God’ is a conceit anyway,” he said. “This is a gross conceit and we don’t really acknowledge it.”
Cox plays loathsome billionaire media mogul Logan Roy on HBO’s hit series inheritancedescribed the Bible as “one of the worst books of all time.”
“That’s not true, it’s a myth,” he said. “We created that idea of God and we created it as a problem of control. And it’s also a problem of patriarchy…and it’s inherently patriarchal. We’re not good enough for patriarchy. It doesn’t give a range.”
He argued that humans are “simply not evolved” enough to deal with problems by looking within themselves, rather than trying to solve them with religion.
“Humans are fundamentally extreme up…because they’re so stupid,” he said.
Mr Cox described his mother’s struggle with mental illness, which he said was due to her mother’s faith and religious beliefs “constantly failing her”.
“She accepted what her religious faith told her, instead of saying, ‘No, be an agnostic, be a pagan, that’s fine, that’s fine,'” Cox recalled. did.
She lost it for a while, but she got it back. I thought that was a shame, but she lost her faith for a while and then she regained it. Because I think I can get back into any twig I can get out of. Water and a twig of it that she can cling to happens to be her mantra, and that worked for her.
Religion leads us to “all kinds of fear,” he declared, referring to the Holocaust and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. “The same things are repeated over and over again in a belief system that doesn’t serve us.”
Conflicts in the Middle East “will never go away,” he said. Because the conflict is fueled by a flawed system that hurts both Muslims and Jews.
In an interview, Cox said he found answers to life’s big questions through acting, claiming that theater is the “one true church” because it is “the church of humanity.”
