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Philippine President Duterte says Christian belief in Trinity is ‘silly’
Rappler ^ | 12/29/2018 | Mara Cepeda

Posted on 12/29/2018 6:57:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte mocked the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity, calling it “silly” on Saturday, December 29.

In a speech in Kidapawan City, Cotabato, the President attacked the doctrine of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as he once again went into a tirade against priests and the Catholic Church.

"You’re already praying at one God, then you’re going to pray at these cursed saints. There’s only one God. There’s only one God, period. You cannot divide God into 3, that’s silly,” said the President.

Before attacking the Holy Trinity doctrine, Duterte said Jesus Christ is “unimpressive” because he had allowed himself to be nailed on the cross.

"Your God was nailed on the cross. How unimpressive. I’m God and you will crucify me? I’d tell them, ‘Lightning, finish all of them. Burn all the non-believers.'"

The passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is among the central doctrines of Christian faith, with Christians believing that Jesus sacrificed himself to save the world from sin.

The President likewise belittled the belief in saints, whom he previously called as “fools” and “drunkards.”

"Saint Catalina, Saint Anne, Saint Thomas, Saint Sebastian, Saint Rodrigo, they’re nothing… I don’t know them. Look, those documents were written – if at all – 3,000 years ago. Why would they care about our lives now?"

"Who wrote about them? Who’s Saint Thomas? We don’t know who they are. That might even be a name for a cow or camel then"

The President – under whose term a string of priests have been murdered – had previously stirred controversy for calling God “stupid."

On December 6, Duterte even joked that bishops should be “killed” for supposedly doing nothing but criticizing his administration, which is waging a bloody war against drugs that has killed thousands.


TOPICS: Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: antipope; christianity; duterte; homosexualagenda; islamofascism; islamofascist; philippines; popefrancis; rodrigoduterte; romancatholicism; trinity
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To: Elsie

Just don't try to change the Scriptures like that anymore, Elsie (like you did in your infamous post # 174)!   That changes it from "Sola Scriptura" to "Scriptura et the-bizarre-changes-made-by-the-man-who-calls-himself-Elsie", and no one on the planet should ever follow that horrendous system, not even you!         :-)

221 posted on 01/02/2019 5:36:10 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Elsie

Brother Elsie, Mary was talking there to the servents at a wedding feast.   (I wasn't there.)

(Your post there demonstrates that you really should spend a little more time studing your Bible, Elsie, and less time here posting goofy posts, and making silly arguments.)

222 posted on 01/02/2019 5:37:16 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Elsie

You don't like the truth very much, do you Mr. Elsie?

223 posted on 01/02/2019 5:38:08 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Elsie

So, the man named Elsie obeys Jesus when the man named Elsie obeys Jesus, and the man named Elsie doesn't obey Jesus when the man named Elsie doesn't obey Jesus.   I got you, Elsie!

(I must go do some real work now, so, cheerio, Elsie!)

224 posted on 01/02/2019 5:39:08 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Songcraft

Placemarker


225 posted on 01/02/2019 7:37:05 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: firebrand; Elsie
Only 8 million people here in NYC but how many would go to hear Tsarfati?

Not many I would suspect, but then again, he goes to that other heathen state, called California, a lot, so it’s hard to say. NYC, seems to me, it’s a spiritual desert, the belly of the beast, if you will. But then again, so is California.
Anyway, you know I am also living in the belly of the beast, as I am surrounded by false religious cult members. You know which cult I am talking about. 😁 I used to be in that cult, but no more. Now, I understand 1st Corinthians 2:14. 😆🇵🇭🙃

226 posted on 01/02/2019 7:50:59 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: firebrand
By the way, they DO allow cult members to see him, since they will get to hear the truth, and maybe leave their cult. 😁👍 It has happened. 😇
227 posted on 01/02/2019 7:57:36 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mark17

California is the scene of a big revival.


228 posted on 01/02/2019 8:04:30 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand
California is the scene of a big revival.

I hope you are right. I always thought California was very sympathetic to atheists and muzzies.

229 posted on 01/02/2019 8:51:24 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Songcraft
Thanks for wasting all of your time trying to convince others of the rightness of your logic.

Perhaps you could put them in a BOOK so folks can REALLY ignore them.


What part of the FACTS of the matter presented to you do you not approve of?

It's clear you're all atwitter over the messenger who has tossed the albatross onto your doorstep.

230 posted on 01/03/2019 12:18:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Songcraft

Excellent example of ‘muddying the water’ BTW.


231 posted on 01/03/2019 12:18:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Songcraft
Just don't try to change the Scriptures like that anymore, Elsie

OK...


Call no man father

232 posted on 01/03/2019 12:20:22 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Songcraft
(I wasn't there.)

Were you at Fatima?

You wanna talk GOOFY??

233 posted on 01/03/2019 12:22:59 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Songcraft
(I must go do some real work now, so, cheerio, Elsie!)

Cheer up; and keep your Brown Scapula clean!

234 posted on 01/03/2019 12:24:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Placemarker

Didja notice he didn't address ANY of the Catholic TEACHINGS posted?

235 posted on 01/03/2019 12:25:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
I always enjoy seeing how the Bible teaches it, and how Rome teaches it. 👍 The two systems rarely intersect. 😁😇😂
236 posted on 01/03/2019 3:31:23 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Elsie
Cheer up; and keep your Brown Scapula clean!

Would this, by any chance, be the fire retardant version? 😁👍😂🤣😇🇵🇭

237 posted on 01/03/2019 3:51:20 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Elsie
(Reply to post #232)

['Just don't try to change the Scriptures like that anymore, Elsie']
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"OK...Call no man father"


That is so much better, Elsie!   Now, honestly, doesn't your conscience feel so much better, when you're not doctoring up those Bible quotes falsely anymore?

238 posted on 01/05/2019 10:19:46 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Elsie
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"Excellent example of ‘muddying the water’ BTW."


Exactly which of those very simple words in that post didn't you understand, Brother Elsie?   Your response honestly brings to mind these words that the Lord said:


       "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they, seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand."   Matthew 13:13


However, I'll be happy to make it even more simple for you, Elsie, so that you should be able to grasp it more easily.

Right from the very beginning of the Church, there have always been prominent Church Leaders who have not always seen eye to eye at first, about various teachings of the Church, as evidenced by this very clear example in the Bible, which illustrates the initially incompatible private interpretations (of the Scriptures and the words of Jesus Christ) between the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter, who held opposing views at first concerning the new Church teaching involving Non-Jewish converts.   This is described and documented in the Bible at

       Galatians 2.

The Church resolved that question as she resolves all such questions, through prayerful consideration by the Church leaders (aka, the "Magisterium"), under the absolutely necessary guidance and powerful protection of the Holy Spirit, as promised by Jesus Christ.   Out of that process, the Church ended up eventually with a brand new formal doctrine, which stated officially that Gentile converts to the Church do NOT have to adopt Jewish customs and practices (such as circumcision) when becoming Christians.

If you really want to know the truth, look at the actual teachings of the Church, which were carefully hammered out by the leaders of the Church (the "Magisterium"), under the very necessary guidance of the Holy Spirit, as ordained by God.   Those official Church teachings and doctrines can be found here in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church", not in long lists of random, dubious, conflicting quotes from various "Catholic" individuals, who express a view that somehow contradicts the actual teaching of the Church, like the list you provided, Brother Elsie.

239 posted on 01/05/2019 10:23:18 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Elsie; Mark17
Reply to Elsie in post #234, copy to Mark17

('I must go do some real work now, so, cheerio, Elsie!')
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"Cheer up; and keep your Brown Scapula clean!"



I don't have a "brown scapular", Brother Elsie, and, frankly, I don't know any Catholics who do.   (That idea came out of a "private revelation" in the distant past, and Catholics are not at all obligated to believe in private revelations -- see this article "Are Catholics obliged to believe in Marian apparitions?" - Karl Keating -- to finally become fully enlightened concerning the truth about that.)

(SPECIAL NOTE to Mark17 in post #237:   Those fire-retardant versions are reserved for Church bashers, as they are certainly gonna need 'em!)        :-)

240 posted on 01/05/2019 10:27:19 PM PST by Songcraft
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