‘Vatican does nothing against drugs here, just collects money at mass’ – Duterte — RT News
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has criticized the Catholic Church for attacking his human rights file, saying it has achieved nothing for drug addicts within the Philippines besides accumulate cash. He then supplied his personal model of what faith needs to be.
The spat between the establishment and Duterte continues, following a photograph exhibition the Vatican staged to commemorate the victims of Philippines violence it says occurs by the president’s hand. Duterte, in response, blasted the Church with insults at a Christmas get together.
“You say Duterte killer. You monks, you blame me for the deaths of hundreds of drug addicts, even those that died in hospitals, you continue to blame me. But you’re the ones who killed Christ,” the president is cited as saying by the Philippine Star.
Duterte has been assailed from all sides for alleged human rights violations in his drug struggle, with images of avenue violence and testimonies of abstract killings often making headlines. But the president believes the Church is doing a good poorer job, which incorporates ignoring the Philippines’ poverty and drug addicts, whereas persevering with to gather money at mass.
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He additionally accused the Church of not doing “something in opposition to unlawful medicine. They by no means bothered to assist.”
He then instructed an “Iglesia ni Duterte” (Church of Duterte), during which there can be “no prohibition, you possibly can even have 5 wives. But be sure to are chargeable for your issues.”
“The Church isn’t giving something even when they accumulate a lot. My assertion is filled with sarcasm as a result of they [priests] have been criticizing me. They are hypocrites,” he added.
Duterte went on to say he believes in God and Allah, however he’s in opposition to organized faith, particularly the Vatican, as a result of it sows the worry of hell in Christians.
“Do not imagine it. That is what that faith is all about, they’re instilling worry that you’ll go to hell in case you are a sinner. But you’ll solely know if there’s certainly a hell in the event you die… Be cautious about faith, it’s about gold. It is about gold. They haven’t achieved something. Where is their God and their grace? There is the hypocrisy of all of it.”
He then went on to bash the United States for its current criticism – one which price all of it pleasant cooperation with the Philippines.
“America didn’t do something for the four million Filipino addicts. And they even scold me,” he went on.
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“Catholic[ism] is a sordid faith. It is about time to point out you its historical past,” he mentioned, mentioning Pope Leo as somebody “sired and even had intercourse along with his youngster.”
The Philippines president in the meantime continues his battle in opposition to unlawful trafficking of medicine at house. Some $20 million price of crystal meth was seized in Bukidnon on Tuesday in an intercepted automotive. The president continues to be criticized for his strategies, however insists it’s not as much as foreigners to intervene within the Philippines’ home affairs.
