Philippine President Duterte says Christian belief in Trinity is ‘silly’

Rappler ^ | 12/29/2018 | Mara Cepeda

[duckman]

id he say ‘silly’ before or after the earthquake?

[duckman]

id = Did

[BenLurkin]

Sounds like a villain from a low-budget movie.

[chris37]

Maybe it is silly.

But I’d rather have faith in Him than you, Mr. Obviously Flawed Human.

[SeekAndFind]

Duterte is in effect, a Jehovah’s Witness, although he does not identify as such.

[fishtank]

He might be in the “Iglesia ni Cristo”, another antiTrinitarian cult....very very big in the Philippines.

[knarf]

THAT would be my opinion too.

Duterte was a good man, but I think he is mentally deteriorating and saying stupid things.

China's Spratly island is (imo) a dangerous element in the South Seas and will probably be used to try to capture the Philippines ala WW2 Japan.

I have always hoped Duterte and Trump would become allies.

[Lee N. Field]

"World ruler in this age not a Christian! Film at 11!"

(No, you shouldn't be surprised at his attitude.)

[stars & stripes forever]

Did he say ‘silly’ before or after the earthquake?

It was BEFORE the earthquake.

[TexasGator]

“I’m God and you will crucify me? I’d tell them, ‘Lightning, finish all of them. Burn all the non-believers.’”

God kept killing off the non-believers. Didn’t work.

[FES0844]

JW don’t vote and don’t pledge allegiance to flag.

[excalibur21]

Does he ever explain where his sources are and how he comes to his conclusions? It’s definitely not the Bible.

[high info voter]

Fools that don’t read the Bible should shut up about it!

[Ezekiel]

It’s like those devils in the NT, ranting. Truth is bubbling forth from offensive places.

[tflabo]

He’s no wise man from the east, that’s for sure.

[prophetic]

It’s always silly to say that any human can even begin to understand spiritual things, much less to compare and mock them. At best, it’s like an ant trying to understand a giant human.

[DPMD]

Maybe now, democrats in the US will be willing to overlook his conduct they earlier described as human rights violations and welcome him into their fold.

[Jack Black]

The earliest known depiction of the Trinity, Dogmatic Sarcophagus, AD 350. Vatican Museums.

The belief in the trinity itself goes back to at least 100 AD, so it's certainly a part of Christian theology from the start, although it's always had opponents.

Wikipedia article: Trinity

[justa-hairyape]

What a foolish man. The death and ressurrectuon of Jesus created one of the worlds greatest and largest religious movements. That could not have happened by killing the Romans. Duh. We were given two thousand years, now our time is about up.