Actor Brian Cox has slammed the Bible (Picture: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)
Brian Cox isn’t a fan of the Bible and shan’t be giving it a glowing review on Goodreads anytime soon.
In fact, he reckons it’s ‘one of the worst books ever’.
The 77-year-old actor has has insisted religion ‘holds us back’ as humans, and blamed narratives in the Bible for society’s patriarchy.
‘We do because we have to honour them and we have to give them their place and we’re resistant to that because all our… it’s Adam and Eve, I mean, the propaganda goes right way back – the Bible is one of the worst books ever, for me, from my point of view,’ he said.
Cox continued on The Starting Line Podcast: ‘Because it starts with the idea that Adam’s rib – you know, that [from] Adam’s rib, this woman was created, and they’ll believe it cause they’re stupid enough.’
The Succession star argued that religion distracts people from who they truly are.
The Succession star reckons the Bible is the ‘worst book’ (Picture: AP)
‘I think religion does hold us back because it’s belief systems which are outside ourselves.
‘They’re not dealing with who we are, we’re dealing with, “Oh if God says this and God does that”, and you go, “Well, what is God?”
“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 haven’t given enough scope to the matriarchy.”
He pointed to the biological differences between men and women when it comes to their role in parenthood.
Cox noted that ‘the mothering thing is the thing which is the real conditioning of our lives’, whereas ‘our fathers don’t condition ourselves because they’re too bloody selfish, but our mothers have to, because they have an umbilical – that’s what the umbilical cord is about.’
The national treasure isn’t always good at holding his tongue (Picture: Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
‘Even though it’s cut away, there’s an umbilical relationship to your child, and the women have that, men do not have that, they’re just sperm banks,’ he explained.
Although Cox admitted spiritual people do need a guide or some kind, he insisted they shouldn’t look to the Bible for an answer.
He declared that they ‘don’t need to be told lies’, but ‘need some kind of truth’.
‘And that is not the truth.’
‘It is not the truth, it’s a mythology, you know?’, he stated. ‘It’s not really to do with what women understand more than anybody.’
The Scottish-born TV star has been hailed as one of the country’s ‘greatest living national treasures’ in recent times, particularly following an appearance on Newsnight.
Closing out 2023 in explicit style, he stunned BBC viewers by dropping an F-bomb in a nod to his Succession character.
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Signing off from the programme for the last time in December, he fulfilled presenter Kirsty Wark’s request to do it ‘in the manner of Logan Roy’.
‘I will attempted to do my best,’ he vowed, and he didn’t let her down.
‘That’s all from tonight from Newsnight, we’ll be back in January. I hope you have an amazing festive season wherever you are, whatever you’re doing.
‘And now, just f*** off.’
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