It struck me funny since I would figure that a loving god would not want to consider it a privilege for us to get to know him. Am I way off, or does that sound weird.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. By the same argument, would a LOVING god:
Wipe out entire cities & civilizations?
Kill women, old people, & children?
Destroy families?
Allow all the pain, suffering, disease, war, etc if he could, by his own hand, cause it to cease?
There is no God.