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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked controversy in the predominantly Catholic country for calling God "stupid," but his spokesman has defended the contentious statement as his personal belief.

Duterte made the statement on Friday evening during a speech in his southern home city of Davao, where he questioned God's logic in the Biblical creation story of Adam and Eve.

"Adam ate (the fruit of knowledge), then malice was born. Who is this stupid God?" he said.

"That son of a bitch is stupid if that's the case. You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work."

Duterte also questioned the rationale of original sin, noting, "That was your mother and father's deed - you weren't born yet, but now you have original sin. What kind of religion is that? I can't accept it."

Amid criticisms over his statements, presidential spokesman Harry Roque urged the public to accept that Duterte tends to use strong language when he expresses his beliefs.

"That is the personal belief of the president," he said. "We are free to believe in religion and we are also free not to believe in religion. The president has his personal spiritual beliefs."

"We cannot fault the president if he has no sense of hypocrisy and we should accept that because even when he was just a candidate, he never hid that from us," he added.

Duterte has in the past lambasted the Catholic Church in the Philippines, where more than 80 per cent of the population practices the religion, calling priests out for allegations of corruption and sexual abuse.

Culled from: http://www.wownews247.com/2018/06/philippines-president-duterte-calls-god.html

franchasng:
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked controversy in the predominantly Catholic country for calling God "stupid," but his spokesman has defended the contentious statement as his personal belief.

Duterte made the statement on Friday evening during a speech in his southern home city of Davao, where he questioned God's logic in the Biblical creation story of Adam and Eve.

"Adam ate (the fruit of knowledge), then malice was born. Who is this stupid God?" he said.

"That son of a bitch is stupid if that's the case. You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work."

Duterte also questioned the rationale of original sin, noting, "That was your mother and father's deed - you weren't born yet, but now you have original sin. What kind of religion is that? I can't accept it."

Amid criticisms over his statements, presidential spokesman Harry Roque urged the public to accept that Duterte tends to use strong language when he expresses his beliefs.

"That is the personal belief of the president," he said. "We are free to believe in religion and we are also free not to believe in religion. The president has his personal spiritual beliefs."

"We cannot fault the president if he has no sense of hypocrisy and we should accept that because even when he was just a candidate, he never hid that from us," he added.

Duterte has in the past lambasted the Catholic Church in the Philippines, where more than 80 per cent of the population practices the religion, calling priests out for allegations of corruption and sexual abuse.

Culled from: http://www.wownews247.com/2018/06/philippines-president-duterte-calls-god.html

Truth is the man is thinking logically. However, God’s way of doing things are mysterious and can’t be deciphered through such simple logic

What religion duterte belong to because may be he want to jewmize Philippines oya paquinho eyan maywether say something because you always go church before you engage on any fight

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And he won the election among the believers? Let me come and be going . It's Monday

Duterte may behave crazy at times, but he is obviously a deep thinker and is making sense in this instance, because the whole biblical creation story about how 'sin' came about is very stupid and irrarional, really.

If Muslims could tolerate people who express a personal belief, then millions of lives would have been spared since the 7th century.

panafrican:
If Muslims could tolerate people who express a personal belief, then millions of lives would have been spared since the 7th century.

wetin com concine muslims for this una matter? Abeg recieve sense in chisus name! Say amen

Duterte doesn't know what he is talking about

Alright, Duarte, you also stupid.