““How was God supposed to stop it? You're a free man, Alois. There are no invisible strings connecting you to God, directing your every move.' But if God is all-powerful, God could intervene. God could find a way.' And because God didn't intervene, it was all right.' Yes.' Too bad you don't believe in God, then. You've lost your excuse.' Bauer blinked. He looked away. 'Perhaps I do believe in God,' he said. Oh yes,' Dietrich said. 'God makes a convenient scapegoat. Or people always think God is absent when things are going bad for them. Things go better and God is back. Well, I want to live in the world as if there were no God. That is the only way God can truly be with any of us.””
