Duterte’s ‘stupid God’ comment

EVEN on the controversial remark made by President Rodrigo Duterte that God is stupid, I am still siding with him.

I am sure my opinion/support won’t sit well with many, but by now we should already know who the man is as the leader of the country and as a person in the way he talks or delivers a message, which almost always keeps you hanging and surmising.

Duterte does not mince words about his antipathy towards the pretentiously or hypocritically pure in this world, starting with the members and followers of the Catholic Church. Frankly, these are the same people that have driven me out of the church -- with no regrets whatsoever.

But does this mean that I have turned my back on God for good? Of course not. I sought Him and found Him and I consider Him as the One putting order in my life and that of my family.

So, one may raise the question if my God is the same as the God of the selfrighteously pious? My answer is I don’t know.

What I am sure about is that the God of the sanctimonious people is not doing enough to alleviate the plight of the poor while seemingly favoring instead the already affluent ones.

What I am simply saying here is that nobody has the right to impose their religious beliefs on other people. It is in this context that I go along with Duterte’s view on this controversial comment.

Expressing one’s opinion about religion or religious belief is a constitutional right and just because one does not conform with the majority does not mean that one is evil. Religion does not singularly define a person’s character. That is too presumptuous.

The truth is that with the barbaric things happening in the world today topped by Trump’s America’s gross violation of human rights where children are mercilessly separated from parents, one should not be talking about the sanity of God, but rather asking the whereabouts of God.

It is the more logical question to ask instead of indulging in criticizing the misinterpreted remarks of Duterte for political reasons.

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