'Succession' Star Brian Cox Calls Bible 'One Of The Worst Books Ever' For Allegedly Not Telling The Truth

Brian Cox talked about a lot of things, including religion, patriarchy, matriarchy and more in a recent interview.

The "Succession" star recently appeared on "The Starting Line" podcast. During the episode, he was asked if religion was holding us back.

"Considerably? Yes. I think religion does hold us back because its belief systems are outside ourselves. They're not dealing with who we are. We're dealing well, 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," he replied.

The "Autopsy of Jane Doe" actor went on to explain that people failed to give matriarchy "enough scope." For him, mothers are behind "the real conditioning of our lives" because fathers are "too bloody selfish."

"Our mothers have to because they have an umbilical, you know, that's what the umbilical cord is about. They have, 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, movable sperm banks to walk around and come and go," he continued.

When asked how the society became patriarchal, Cox said it was because it had to honor the fathers. However, at that point, he blamed the Bible for allegedly promoting patriarchy.

"I mean, the propaganda goes right 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 out of Adam's rib, this woman was created," he explained. "Don't believe them because they're stupid."

Host Cole Taylor responded that people need it "to feel that there's something outside of themselves." Cox acknowledged that need but argued people don't need to be told lies.

"They don't need to be told lies. They need some kind of truth and that is not the truth. It is not the truth. It's a mythology," Cox said.

Cox also spoke about the monarchy. For him, the monarchy should be transformed to be more constitutional than it is because "it isn't constitutional enough."

He praised the late Queen Elizabeth but noted that there's nothing divine about kings, who allegedly "all started as bandits." The host clarified if he wasn't advocating for the breakdown of the monarchy and if he just felt that it was not fit for purpose as is, and he confirmed it.

"It's not fit for purpose, and I do think that we need to move to a much more, you know, where we are not in a feudal state," Cox added.

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