MANILA: The Philippine president, who just lately sparked outrage for calling God silly, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic nation via saying he'll resign if any one can end up that God exists.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny dating with the church, questioned anew in a speech past due Friday one of the crucial elementary tenets of the Catholic religion, together with the concept of original sin, which he stated taints even innocent infants and can best be got rid of through baptism in a church for a charge.
"Where is the logic of God there?" Duterte asked in a speech at the opening of a science and technology event in southern Davao town.
The 73-year-old leader stated that if there is "one single witness" who can end up, possibly with a picture or a selfie that a human used to be "able to talk and to see God," he'll straight away resign.
Duterte, on the other hand, recommended that there must be a God or a ideally suited being that forestalls billions of stars and celestial bodies from colliding in a frequency that can have lengthy threatened the human race.
Last week, he used to be slammed, together with via some of his political allies, for calling God "stupid" in every other speech, with one Catholic bishop calling him a "psychopath." Duterte lamented in that speech that Adam and Eve's sin in Christian theology resulted in the entire devoted falling from divine grace.
"Who is this stupid God? This son of a bitch is then really stupid," he stated last week. "You were not involved but now you're stained with an original sin ... What kind of a religion is that? That's what I can't accept, very stupid proposition." Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV shot back at Duterte via describing him as "one evil man" and his remarks as "very much consistent with the deceitfulness, heartlessness and ruthlessness of his policies." Presidential spokesman Harry Roque has defended his remarks, saying Duterte has the suitable to specific his opinion on faith and cited the president's earlier disclosure that he used to be once sexually abused via a clergyman.
Duterte on Friday recalled that have, when he stated he and other scholars have been fondled via a international Jesuit priest, who has since died.
Amid the criticisms, officials have arranged a gathering between Duterte and the top of the largest affiliation of Catholic bishops on Monday. Filipino bishops opened an annual convention in Manila Saturday and have been expected to handle Duterte's tirades when they conclude their assembly on Monday.
Some Catholic bishops had been crucial of Duterte's brutal crackdown in opposition to unlawful drugs, that have left thousands of suspects useless in reported clashes with the police, along with his vulgar and expletives-laden speeches. He once known as Pope Francis a "son of a bitch" for sparking a monstrous site visitors all the way through a 2015 visit in Manila that trapped Duterte for hours.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny dating with the church, questioned anew in a speech past due Friday one of the crucial elementary tenets of the Catholic religion, together with the concept of original sin, which he stated taints even innocent infants and can best be got rid of through baptism in a church for a charge.
"Where is the logic of God there?" Duterte asked in a speech at the opening of a science and technology event in southern Davao town.
The 73-year-old leader stated that if there is "one single witness" who can end up, possibly with a picture or a selfie that a human used to be "able to talk and to see God," he'll straight away resign.
Duterte, on the other hand, recommended that there must be a God or a ideally suited being that forestalls billions of stars and celestial bodies from colliding in a frequency that can have lengthy threatened the human race.
Last week, he used to be slammed, together with via some of his political allies, for calling God "stupid" in every other speech, with one Catholic bishop calling him a "psychopath." Duterte lamented in that speech that Adam and Eve's sin in Christian theology resulted in the entire devoted falling from divine grace.
"Who is this stupid God? This son of a bitch is then really stupid," he stated last week. "You were not involved but now you're stained with an original sin ... What kind of a religion is that? That's what I can't accept, very stupid proposition." Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV shot back at Duterte via describing him as "one evil man" and his remarks as "very much consistent with the deceitfulness, heartlessness and ruthlessness of his policies." Presidential spokesman Harry Roque has defended his remarks, saying Duterte has the suitable to specific his opinion on faith and cited the president's earlier disclosure that he used to be once sexually abused via a clergyman.
Duterte on Friday recalled that have, when he stated he and other scholars have been fondled via a international Jesuit priest, who has since died.
Amid the criticisms, officials have arranged a gathering between Duterte and the top of the largest affiliation of Catholic bishops on Monday. Filipino bishops opened an annual convention in Manila Saturday and have been expected to handle Duterte's tirades when they conclude their assembly on Monday.
Some Catholic bishops had been crucial of Duterte's brutal crackdown in opposition to unlawful drugs, that have left thousands of suspects useless in reported clashes with the police, along with his vulgar and expletives-laden speeches. He once known as Pope Francis a "son of a bitch" for sparking a monstrous site visitors all the way through a 2015 visit in Manila that trapped Duterte for hours.
Duterte vows to resign if anybody can prove God exists
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