DUTERTE SAYS SORRY TO ‘GENERIC’ GOD
President takes a swipe anew at church leaders who criticize him from the pulpit
President Rodrigo Duterte apologized to a “generic” God in a meeting Tuesday night with evangelist and Jesus is Lord Church Worldwide founder Eduardo “Eddie” Villanueva.
In a five-minute video uploaded yesterday morning by the Presidential Communications Operations Office on its official Facebook page, Duterte is shown sitting beside Villanueva.
“And I said, if it’s the same God, I’m sorry. That’s how it is. Iyan ang sinabi ko. Sorry, God. I said sorry God. If God is taken in a generic term by everybody listening, then that’s well and
And I said, if it’s the same God, I’m sorry. That’s how it is. Iyan ang sinabi ko. Sorry, God. I said sorry God. If God is taken in a generic term by everybody listening, then that’s well and good. PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE
good,” the President said.
But before he said he was sorry, he talked about the difference of his God from the God of other religious groups. He later said his God is all-forgiving.
“I only apologize to God, nobody else. If I wronged God, then He would be happy to listen to my program. Why? Because my God is all-forgiving. Why? Because he does not remember past hurts. Why? Because God created me to be good and not to be bad,” he said.
The apology was made just hours after he again lashed at a God who must have been stupid to create hell.
In his speech in Pampanga earlier Tuesday, the President took a swipe anew at church leaders who criticize him from the pulpit.
The President’s latest tirade against the Catholic Church was made a day after the Palace announced that Duterte had agreed, during a meeting with Davao Archbishop and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president Romulo Valles, to a moratorium on statements about the Church.
Duterte said he could not accept the “improper” behavior of religious leaders who are using the pulpit to criticize him and his administration.
“There is a separation of church and state. Do not use God to attack government. That is not proper. And God, I’m sure that is not what God wants,” he said.