Rodrigo Duterte sparks outrage
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines president, has provoked a storm of outrage after he called the Christian god “stupid” and a “son of a bitch”.
In a televised speech Mr Duterte questioned the wisdom of the deity said to have created Adam and Eve only to see them succumb to Satan’s temptation and destroy the purity of humanity.
“Who is this stupid god? This son of a bitch is then really stupid,” he said. Mr Duterte leads a country where about nine in 10 people are Christian, and the vast majority of those Catholic.
It was only the latest in a string of controversial public remarks by the president, who has admitted murder; advised citizens not to wear condoms despite an HIV crisis; told soldiers to shoot female rebels in the vagina; and claimed he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of people in his bloody crackdown on drugs.
In a televised speech Mr Duterte questioned the wisdom of the deity said to have created Adam and Eve only to see them succumb to Satan’s temptation and destroy the purity of humanity.
It was only the latest in a string of controversial public remarks by the president, who has admitted murder; advised citizens not to wear condoms despite an HIV crisis; told soldiers to shoot female rebels in the vagina; and claimed he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of people in his bloody crackdown on drugs.
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