[Revolting cat!]

OK, fine. Regardless of your argument with Rome, realize that the God you are describing, and you are not alone in that, here or elsewhere, now or in history, is a hard, cruel, fear inspiring god. That's no different from the God of the Catholic Church.

Why hasn't He allowed my best friend, who died last December, to contact me? Is my best friend, in the Great Beyond now, happy with that? What kind of dictatorship do they have there? All foolish questions, yes?

[Quix]

I don’t know that I’d call them foolish.

More unwise.

And, no, I don’t see God as a cruel, fear inspiring God.

He really is altogether Good and Altogether Loving.

It would be a shoddy univese without any standards, justice, RIGHT/WRONG etc.

WISDOM IS

the reverential awe/fear of The Lord.

I do believe that IF ON BALANCE

Your best friend contacting you were decreed in God’s wisdom to be

THE BEST THING FOR YOU ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, then, I believe God would arrange it.

Evidently, God has a different perspective on that.