Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte, has come under heavy criticism in his country after he called God “stupid” and a “son of a bitch”.

Duterte made the statement on Friday evening during a speech in his southern home city of Davao, where he questioned God’s logic in the Biblical creation story of Adam and Eve. He said.

“Adam ate (the fruit of knowledge), then malice was born. Who is this stupid God?”

“That son of a bitch is stupid if that’s the case.

“You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work.”

Duterte also questioned the rationale of original sin, the president said,

“That was your mother and father’s deed – you weren’t born yet, but now you have original sin. What kind of religion is that? I can’t accept it.

“I believe there is a universal mind, but… I cannot picture him as a human being. But I really believe, I have this faith and abiding thing, but don’t believe in religion.”

He made similar remarks earlier this month during a meeting with the Filipino community in South Korea. “If that’s the Catholic God, that’s a lie. Seek God right.”

Meanwhile, his spokesman, Harry Roque said “we cannot fault the president if he has no sense of hypocrisy”.

Harry Roque said,

“We are free to believe in religion and we are also free not to believe in religion. The president has his personal spiritual beliefs.”

“We cannot fault the president if he has no sense of hypocrisy and we should accept that because even when he was just a candidate, he never hid that from us.”