Maybe God has no need or desire to be worshipped

By Letter to the Editor on December 29, 2021.

Editor:
Re: “Everything is happening as prophesized in Bible,” Letters to the Editor, Dec.15
Over decades, I’ve found that too many monotheists have unwittingly created God’s nature in their own characteristically fallible and angry, vengeful image. I sometimes wonder whether the general human need for retributive justice can be intrinsically linked to the same terribly flawed aspect of humankind that enables the most horrible acts of violent cruelty to readily occur on this planet, perhaps not all of which we learn about.
 On a theological/theistic level, regardless of one’s belief or disbelief in the Almighty requiring literal blood and pain ‘payment’ for humankind’s sinfulness, it’s known factually that the animal creation have had their blood literally shed and bodies eaten in mindboggling quantities by people. 
Maybe the figurative forbidden fruit of Eden eaten by Adam and Eve was actually the Divine’s four-legged creation. One can see that really angering Him/Her/It – far, far more than the couple’s eating non-sentient, non-living, non-bloodied fruit. I’ve noticed that mainstream Christianity doesn’t speak up much at all about what we, collectively, have done to animals for so long. 
 For me, Jesus’ washing his disciples’ feet was/is the most profound and hopeful example of the humility of the Creator, who, through Jesus, joined humankind in our miseries, joys and everything in between.
(Personally, I picture Jesus as being one who’d enjoy a belly-shaking laugh over a good, albeit clean, joke with his disciples, now and then.)
In fact, the washing of others’ feet is typically so incredibly humbling for any person – let alone the Almighty – that my critical/doubtful mental ‘voice’ briefly has me questioning its actuality. Briefly. 
Furthermore, for me, Jesus coming to serve, rather than to be served is also most profound and hope-inducing. … As bold as it may sound, I believe that God may not need or desire to be worshipped; and that “houses of worship” may actually have been meant for the parishioners, divinely intended to be for the soul what health clinics/spas, even hospitals, are for the body and mind.
Also, perhaps the Ten Commandments were/are not meant to obey in order to appease God but rather intended for His human creation’s benefit, to keep people safe and healthy. …
There likely are many other Believers out there holding similar thoughts, but they may fear openly questioning the strict-Biblical-interpretation teachings of (what I term) institutionalized Christianity, thus risk angering their Maker. 
Frank Sterle Jr.
White Rock, B.C.