question for religious people

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Ok, this can be for people of any monotheist religion, be it christianity, islam, judaism, w/e. So, you believe there is a humble, all powerful, all loving god..... Yet, god requires mere human beings (who are no doubt like ants compared to him), mere humans, to bow and worship him... That doesn't sound like a very humble act in my opinion.
Sounds more like subjugation, which is more or less slavery. For god to require us to bow to him or worship him would be very very egotistical, would it not? Plus it's like this, imagine I could somehow communicate with bugs, and I demanded them to worship me. What's the point?

I had exactly the same question when I was a child. I never got a satisfactory answer to the question from Christian school teachers or others. In fact it was risky to even ask such a questions when I was young without fear of retribution in one form or another. I grew up thinking God was some sort of supernatural bully. To be fair when I did look into Christianity as a young adult I saw past this childhood impression and realised it was more to do with poor teachers of Christianity than anything else. None the less I never got any satisfactory explanation to lots of questions and rejected Christianity as a result.

You're exposing the lie that religion is based upon snake.

Worship creates vicarious power. The thing that you worship doesn't even need to be real.

If you remeber the scene in 1984 where Winston is discussing the fact that no one has ever seen big brother, and he questions, is big brother is even real. That's the whole point. A figure head doesn't need to be real because the source of the power is worship itsself.

You cant continue to create threads like these
and maintain any hope of getting into heaven..

Religion is child's play.

The concept of a hugely superior being demanding confused adherents to worship it in order to get ultimate rewards such as ending up with wings and harps and screwable innocent females is so obviously silly that anybody who accepts these basically comical concepts is not worth arguing with. A mind so gullible is basically deranged and not worth interacting with. Unfortunately some of these minds equip themselves with instruments of violence and destruction and become dangerous. Best to avoid them.

Hmm, to me the humble part isn't the problem. It's having a god who is all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful, yet still has a hell.

Thing is, if god know everything, then she knows what everyone is going to do. From the point an innocent baby is born, she can tell whether its actions will lead it to hell or not. Since she is all-powerful, she could change things so that person didn't go to hell.

Now, the immediate counter arguement to this is the free will shtick, but this still falls through IMO. God doesn't have to change your mind to alter the course of your life, she can simply alter your circumstances. If she has created a world in which you must believe certain things in order to get to heaven, but where the environment that people live in causes them to doubt those things, she is effectively being sadistic. If I were to put you in a room with twelve objects and then say I'm going to shoot you unless you bring the right one to me, then I really am being a dick. Yet that apparently is what god is doing - giving us a bunch of religions that claim that if you don't follow them you're going to hell.

One of these things must not be true. Personally, I prefer to believe that there is no hell, and that all actions lead to the same ending. Whether that is oblivion, reincarnation, or heaven, I don't know.