President Rodrigo Duterte's increasingly heated war of words with the Catholic Church is driving a wedge into the Philippine's largely Catholic population, sparking fierce debates on matters of faith and politics.
Mr Duterte - who is not known to mince words when he's on the podium before a large, cheering crowd - last week stoked public anger when he called God "stupid" and questioned the logic behind the Christian concept of original sin.
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