Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor Brian Cox called the Bible “one of the worst books ever” during a recent interview on author Rich Leigh’s “The Starting Line Podcast.”
Known for his work on HBO’s hit series “Succession,” as well as the films “Troy,” “X2,” “Braveheart,” and “The Bourne Identity,” the 77-year-old actor told Leigh that there is no such thing as God.
“The idea that there’s a God that takes care of us all—there’s no such thing. Doesn’t happen,” Cox said.
During the interview, Cox called humanity “so deeply, deeply stupid,” later reiterating again that people “are stupid.”
Cox said the theater is his church, calling it the “church of humanity.”
He explained, “It’s people dealing with all those things that we’re dealing with every day and all those false gods that we create for ourselves, and the notion of the Word of God— anyway, it’s a conceit. It’s a terrible conceit.”
“Religion holds us back,” Cox said, because religion is merely “belief systems which are outside ourselves.”
Cox believes that those who believe in religion are not “dealing with who” they or society really is, and he said that the idea of God is something people have created to be used to control others.
He labeled the biblical story of Adam and Eve “propaganda” and said that the only reason people believe it is because they are “stupid enough” to do so.
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“The Bible is one of the worst books ever, for me, from my point of view, because it starts with the idea that out of Adam’s rib, this woman was created, and they’ll believe it, because they’re stupid enough,” Cox said.
