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Du30: God told me to stop cursing

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DAVAO CITY—President Rodrigo Duterte said God talked to him on his flight back from Japan and admonished him to stop cursing.

“Everybody was asleep, snoring, but a voice said that, you know, if you don’t stop epithets, I will bring down this plane now,” Duterte said in his arrival speech at the Davao International Airport after an official three-day visit to Japan.

He said he even asked the voice who he was, but only later realized that it was God.

“So, I promise God to—not to express slang, cuss words and everything,” he said.

VERSUS DEUM. President Rodrigo Duterte, deep in prayer, in obvious contemplation of what he called God’s admonition to him on his flight back from Japan this week, quoting the Almighty, thusly, ‘if you don’t stop epithets, I will bring down this plane now.’ Then added posthaste ‘I do not want anyone reading my mind.’

He said that a promise to God is also a promise to the Filipino people, the reason why he must be careful not to use curse words.

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Asked if he would no longer curse at the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Senator Leila de Lima, Duterte said: “There is always time for everything.”

Duterte is well known for using profanity when he is angry, and has cursed the Pope, US President Barack Obama, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

“Ask anyone who really knows me. There’s always a time for everything—a time to be foul mouthed… I do not want anyone reading my mind,” he said Friday.

In one interview during the presidential campaign, Duterte said cursing was part of his strategy to connect with the masses.

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