{"id":132,"date":"2010-01-24T08:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/marcos_test\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:07:36","slug":"there-are-saints-but-there-is-no-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoscarpio.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/24\/there-are-saints-but-there-is-no-god\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Saints&#8230;But There is No God???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekday, after arriving from work, I always see my father, in his advanced age of 90, sitting on the La-Z Boy.<\/p>\n<p>That may not seem unusual but for the past 3 years, he had been talking more and more &#8211; and, in a very loud voice to almost everyone to who sets foot in the house. Again, talking to someone may not seem unusual but, again, his repetitive harks to attract somebody&#8217;s attention &#8211; &#8211; he will call out one&#8217;s name almost ten, if not, twenty times, just to engage that person in his typical convoluted kind of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The medical student in me, tells me that something wrong is now going on in my father&#8217;s brain. Dementia, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, &#8220;over-emotional-outburst-of-a-person-in-advanced-age-syndrome&#8221;&#8230;whatever the medical community may call it, but, the fact that for some people who have the luck to live their lives for that long, will eventually, fade out in time.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies are not as durable as steel or plastic.<\/p>\n<p>I am sad all about these because I had believed in an omnipotent God for the most part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekday, after arriving from work, I always see my father, in his advanced age of 90, sitting on the La-Z Boy. 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