The Golden Compass

“Well, where is God,” said Mrs. Coulter, “If he’s alive? And why doesn’t he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the garden and spoke to Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged—he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now? Is he still alive, at some inconceivable age, decrepit to die, a rotten hulk? And if that is his condition, wouldn’t it be the most merciful thing, the truest proof of our love for God, to seek him out and give him the git of death?”