Catholicism and the Filipino thirst for blood

MONDAY, JANUARY 09, 2017
Catholicism and the Filipino thirst for blood

It is horrifying to learn that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has an 83-per-cent approval rating.

So while the Filipinos – who are 80-per-cent Catholic – believe it’s murder to destroy a fertilised egg or even a stem cell, they support a president who has slaughtered thousands of people without trial, almost all of them poor, some with their hands tied behind their backs and one, a five-year-old girl whose death Duterte dismissed as “collateral damage”. This is a perfect example of how religion has nothing to do with being “pro-life” and everything to do with being hypocritical, sadistic and cruel at a level that is beyond all human belief.
Eric Bahrt