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Devotion, democracy and Duterte

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President of the Philippines and confessed "sinner" Rodrigo Duterte(Getty Imges: Noel Celis)

Philosopher Richard Rorty famously described religious language as a "conversation stopper"; he thought it was intrinsically authoritarian and incompatible with democratic politics. But in the Philippines, under the brutal presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, religious language and democratic politics are working together as close allies—and this has troubling implications for justice and human rights.

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Ethics, Christianity, Evangelicalism, Christianity, World Politics
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