I think there are lots of people who live on the edge of existence who have to really fight to live. I do think that they might sin in a conventional sense and I’m not saying they rape and murder but there are huge struggles going on in this world so I disagree I thinks it’s very universal. I think in cultures whether they’re religions or whether they’re experiences that you have in a certain social setting one of the things that something like religion can give you sometimes is they give you a certain moral compass. Like the old man is the moral compass he’s the person who gives the Creature his intellectual world, the idea of what his place in the world of ideas is and that’s where his self consciousness is. It’s not just language and understanding of what’s good and bad its also cycling it through a very particular cultural input. He doesn’t believe that you are born bad. You can do good and it’s up to you and what I’m saying is it shapes his world and I think we’re the same. I think we explore religion down through history you can see it across Africa and countless other places and continents and it’s something that people are then beholden to live by and be very aware of even though their actual circumstances will be high ideals which will have been placed on them by foreign…I’m going on a bit aren’t I?
Benedict Cumberbatch speaking on Religion (Frankenstein Q&A)
I have taken extensive courses on Buddhist thought, tradition and philosophy, so I’ve had to deal with my fair share of trying to comprehend the incomprehensible….but I don’t fucking understand what the hell he’s trying to say here…
I just wish the phrase “religion can give you…a certain moral compass” hadn’t been used…..egh. Just eeeeeeehhhhhhhhgggggg.
