My God...

President Rodrigo Duterte saying that “God is stupid”

The society is composed of organized group with same interests. The five institutions of society include the government and religion along with education, multiculturalism and economics. These social dimensions are directly related to one another even though they have individual functions on their own.

The past few months the President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement “What I said was your God is not my God because your God is stupid, my God has a lot of common sense” became the hot topic of not just in national setting but also reached the international. It happened to be controversial maybe because the highest power in the country is verbalizing own opinion about religion. Gauche sound to some Filipino and affront to many.

The separation of the state and the government has been inviolable. Everyone is entitled to have own belief to what religion they want to belong and to believe in. As much as what the President is trying to expound, he is merely expressing his own thought of what is his God. Any creature has different name they may call to what their “God” is. It just happened that the President is being criticized by his troublesome mouth since his candidacy in 2016. Every Filipino who voted and did not vote for him already observed this trait of him.

The church as the representation of the Supreme Being in the Earth has been reactive to what the President is saying. Being an institution of the society they are rational to criticize any foul sound against the Supreme Being or God they are pertaining to.

The initiative of the President to have a talk with the Catholic Bishop of the Philippines is still a sign of his respect and acceptance that he offended some Filipinos and undertakes that he would not make any statement against church in public.

Even if they are of different political views, the welfare of the Filipino society matters to the government and to the church. From the controversies of the reproductive laws to the divorce issues, each has its own distinct judgment.

I, being a citizen of the Philippines, hold high respect to my God, the ultimate being.

I comprehend the side of the President for the reason that there is Agnostic Theist individual, those who believe that there is God but uncertain of its existence. In the case of the President as he said that if you can show him a “selfie” with God that is the time that he will only believe of its existence. Anyone cannot impose of what to believe in merely because we have our own reasoning.