President Duterte’s
concept of a perfect and intelligent God who created the cosmos and holds the
heavenly bodies together is a concept
that doesn’t come from empty
space but apparently originate from his exposure to the bible and, perhaps,
with the Quran’s account of creation,
the two accounts of which hardly vary in
substance.
When he said” Your God is stupid,” “your” logically refers not
just to Catholics but to all his Filipino audience or listeners when he said
it, to everyone for that matter who believes in the God of creation as narrated
in their holy books.
Mr. Duterte lambasted the God of
holy-book believers for this
God’s stupidity in creating man as a
perfect being and then making him imperfect by temptation.
The President owes us an account how his perfect God created
humans. Did his perfect God create humans or did he not at all to avoid imperfection? Duterte publicly admitted that he is imperfect
and only his God is perfect. His logic
in castigating the Abrahamic God , that Jews, Muslims and Christians revere, runs
that a perfect God could not have an
imperfect creation, say, in man.
Why not if it’s God’s purpose to remain supreme above
everyone.
Is the President not a hard evidence in this regard - his
perfect God creating an imperfect Rodrigo Duterte? Otherwise, if he is not his God’s creation nor
of the God of Abraham, whose stupidity and association he abhors, then whose
product is he?
Everybody is entitled to freedom of expression
and freedom of religion, to his belief or unbelief; but to glorify one's belief
and mock what others believe is uncouth. It is self-righteousness and meanness
in the highest order.
