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<\/p>\nThe Succession star did not hold back…<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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During the interview, Leigh asked the 79-year-old whether he believed humanity was being held back by religion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“Oh considerably, yes – I think religion does hold us back because it’s belief systems which are outside ourselves,” Cox replied, via The Mirror.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The actor continued: “They’re not dealing with who we are, we\u2019re dealing with, ‘Oh if God says this and God does that’, and you go, ‘Well what is God?’ We\u2019ve created that idea of God, and we\u2019ve created it as a control issue, and it\u2019s also a patriarchal issue … and it\u2019s essentially patriarchal – we haven\u2019t given enough scope to the matriarchy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“The mothering thing is the thing which is the real conditioning of our lives, our fathers don’t condition ourselves because they’re too bloody selfish, but our mothers have to, because they have an umbilical – that\u2019s what the umbilical cord is about…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“Even though it\u2019s cut away, there\u2019s an umbilical relationship to your child, and the women have that, men do not have that, they’re just sperm banks.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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He went on to link his ideas back to the Bible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“It\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“Because it starts with the idea that Adam’s rib – you know that [from] Adam’s rib, this woman was created, and they\u2019ll believe it cause they\u2019re stupid enough.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Cox then argued that although spiritual people need something to look to, he does not believe the Bible is that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“They need it, but they don\u2019t need to be told lies, they need some kind of truth, and that is not the truth. It is not the truth, it\u2019s a mythology you know … it\u2019s not really to do with what women understand more than anybody.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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