Duterte Calls God ‘Stupid,’ Faces Uproar in Catholic Philippines
- Philippine leader exercising right to free speech: spokesman
- Catholic bishops call out Duterte for attacking beliefs
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked an uproar in Asia’s biggest Catholic nation after he called God “stupid,” prompting a rebuke from church officials who have been instrumental in toppling past leaders.
In an expletive-laden speech last Friday before government officials, Duterte expressed disbelief in the Catholic story of creation and described the teaching that humans have already sinned at birth as a “very stupid proposition.”