Questions on miracles (2)

The cult of saints and their alleged miracles raises a lot of questions. For example, how come a few people claim to have been healed through the intercession of a dead Dun Gorg while thousands of terminally-ill people who fervently pray to a living God are not healed and, in fact, die?

Why are Catholics always seeking miracles from some new "blessed" or other? Don't they have faith in the thousands of saints who have already been canonised?

Every year, thousands of pilgrims go to Lourdes and with heartfelt faith pray to the Virgin Mary for recovery from illness. Their prayers at the miraculous site of Lourdes are not answered while those who pray to a dead Dun Gorg claim to have been healed through his "intercession".

And why the need for intercession at all? Don't Catholics believe that God will answer their prayers? Or have they been taught by their priests to think of their God as some forbidding oriental potentate who will only grant the requests of "intercessors" bowing and kowtowing before Him?

And how can relics heal anyone? How can a glove belonging - not to Dun Gorg but to a gravedigger - heal anyone?

The truth is that any healing that takes place within an individual is due not to the intervention of a dead man but to the as yet unknown natural phenomena within the living human being. In other words "Nature cures the disease, and the remedy amuses the patient".