Duterte to critics of capital punishment ‘What if there’s no God?’

Duterte is not a man to mince his words no matter who is involved. His startled and speechless victims are some of the strongest, the most revered and the most powerful ones on earth.
The only entity who had been escaping his ire and saving itself from a lashing with his horrible tongue was god himself.
But, he could not hide for long. Duterte finally caught up with him and expressed a doubt as to whether he is existing or not.
This amusing remark he made in response to the statement by someone that only god had the right to take someone’s life. The question was straight from the shoulder, “What if there’s no God?”
He is a person who has made many swallow their tongue and rarely has he received a reply.
The occasion that this interaction took place was when the oath-taking of the press corps official for Malacanang, the Presidential Palace, was going on.
He made a renewed attempt to convince the doubting Thomases that the prevalence of widespread corruption and spread of drugs was only because people were not afraid of the law. The wrong-doers will be afraid when the capital punishment would loom in front of them.
Hence, fear is a necessary catalyst for there to be law and order. He went on a philosophical rampage saying that all Presidents would have questioned the existence of God.
He then went on to say that he did believe in god but had this poser for god as to where he was when we needed him the most. He then rambled on to say that there are people of all beliefs as also non-believers. There were atheists and agnostics for whom god did not exist.
The 17th Congress led by the President has made it an important goal to re-introduce the death penalty. Duterte assumes that the threat of death will make people think twice before committing a heinous crime.
Pantaleon Alvarez, the house speaker himself introduced in the house of representatives a bill to re-introduce the death penalty for heinous crimes by a dose of lethal injection.
However, the war on criminality is on.
Umrao singh umraoz.wordpress.com

Written for: Lars-Magnus Carlsson www.thephilippinepride.com Sunday, 25 September 2016

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