{"id":5221,"date":"2018-07-31T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2018-07-31T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:04:05","slug":"duterte-not-sorry-over-his-stupid-god-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5221","title":{"rendered":"Duterte not sorry over his \u2018stupid God\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

To this day, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has remained unapologetic over his \u201cstupid God\u201d remark.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I choose not to believe in any God, what\u2019s the \u201cf\u2026 thing about it? It\u2019s a freedom to choose one,\u201d Duterte said in his speech in Cagayan de Oro.<\/p>\n

And again, in his speech on June 22, Duterte ranted about God and called him stupid for the concept of \u201coriginal sin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is this stupid God? You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would destroy the quality of your work. How can you rationalize that God? How can you believe him? So now we\u2019re all born with an original sin. Even in the womb, we already have sinned. What kind of religion is that?\u201d <\/p>\n

Duterte said his remarks about a \u201cstupid God\u201d was in connection with his frustration with Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox who has criticized his administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cTotoo naman (It\u2019s true) and I said that, kung hindi itong mga bobo \u2018to, I said that in connection with my statement against Sister Fox,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can take the insult of a garbage collector or a general or a mayor or anybody else\u2019s for that matter. Ang hingin ko lang (What I ask) is that when you do it, you are a Filipino,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He slammed foreigners for thinking they have the lone \u201cprivilege\u201d of insulting us. \u201dYou are citizens, not of my country\u2026You shut up,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

He also blasted his critics for calling him out over his \u201cstupid God\u201d remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cPuro lang kayo daldal (You are all just talk)\u2026 I said you review the tapes. I told you, \u2018Your god, is not my god because your god is stupid?’\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMine has a lot of common sense. Now, why do you have to talk about religion?\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Duterte on God, Catholics and Adam\u2019s apple<\/p>\n

There was, apparently, no love lost between President Rodrigo Duterte and the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

During his campaign, the President minced no words lambasting the church for the sexual molestation he allegedly suffered from a priest when he was in high school.<\/p>\n

Two years into his six-year term, Duterte continues to attack the church. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo God was lonely, so he created paradise and that\u2019s planet Earth. And God said, \u2018I will create man,\u2019 so there was Adam. God found that Adam was lonely, so he took one of his ribs and created woman. But God doubted his creation so he tested it. He called a snake and told it to give an apple to Eve. Eve ate it and gave it to Adam. And so malice was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is this stupid God? You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would destroy the quality of your work. How can you rationalize that God? How can you believe him? So now we\u2019re all born with an original sin. Even in the womb, we already have sin. What kind of religion is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose priests and bishops, they didn\u2019t elect me to office. Those idiots, they\u2019re with the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my campaign, I felt like peeing, but son of a whore, it took three hours from Robinsons to the airport. I was late. So I said, son of a whore, Pope, you better leave now. I cursed him. Why did he come and cause such a traffic jam? We have a new religion when we get out of here: the church of Duterte. You have an obligation to make yourself happy.\u201d (Source: Daily Mail)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To this day, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has remained unapologetic over his \u201cstupid God\u201d remark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,49,57,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}