Posted on 07/07/2018 10:55:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
MANILA, Philippines The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny relationship with the church, questioned anew in a speech late Friday some of the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, including the concept of original sin, which he said taints even innocent infants and can only be removed through baptism in a church for a fee.
Where is the logic of God there? Duterte asked in a speech at the opening of a science and technology event in southern Davao city.
The 73-year-old leader said that if theres one single witness who can prove, perhaps with a picture or a selfie that a human was able to talk and to see God, he will immediately resign.
Duterte, however, suggested that there must be a God or a supreme being that prevents billions of stars and celestial bodies from colliding in a frequency that could have long threatened the human race.
Last week, he was slammed, including by some of his political allies, for calling God stupid in another speech, with one Catholic bishop calling him a psychopath.
Duterte lamented in that speech that Adam and Eves sin in Christian theology resulted in all the faithful falling from divine grace.
Who is this stupid God? This son of a bitch is then really stupid, he said last week. You were not involved but now youre stained with an original sin
What kind of a religion is that? Thats what I cant accept, very stupid proposition.
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And just why - on what basis -should your statements, He may have sealed his fate when he called Mary a bitch in a predominantly Catholic country. Im positive he sealed his eternal fate. As for believing, he should listen to Archie Bunker. Faith is when you believe in something nobody in his right mind would believe in.. Thats why its called faith. be understood as intended humor?
At least 3 other persons took your comments as literal, and I have seen so-called believers actually define faith as something you believe in without evidence, thus why should we assume you also hold to that?
And " Im positive he sealed his eternal fate" simply does not translate into "I didnt say he couldnt be forgiven."
The Ultimate manifestation of the character of God, while evidence of the resurrection is manifest in every true conversion of faith led by Godly sorrow via the Spirit of Christ.
Wha!
I got called on it.
It was a JOKE!
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