President Duterte of the Philippines is wanting to reimpose the death penalty so that criminals can all pay for their crimes just in the case that there is no God. The president believes that he would bring it back even though the “bleeding hearts” like priests and human rights groups have said that it does not reduce crime rate.
In a speech at Malacañang on Monday afternoon, Duterte said;
Every president along the way didn’t impose it only because the Catholic Church and all the bleeding hearts would say that only God could kill. But what if there is no God?
When a one-year-old baby, 18-months-old baby is taken from the mother’s arms brought under a jeep and raped and killed. So where is God? My God, where are you?
I believe in God but that is my perpetual question to him. Where were you when we needed you? It’s not enough to say that at the end of the world, he will judge the living and the dead. What would be the purpose of all of that if the heartaches, sorrows and agony have already been inflicted in this world?