Why Worship God?

I have something (unbiased) to say.

Regardless of your belief in a god (or God as the case may be), there have been a number of studies done that have demonstrated the positive benefits of religion in general. I'd like to add that the person who presented these studies was an unbeliever and an agnostic. Here are several key points:

# Meditation/Prayer/Worship/What have you
# Sticking to a set of basic rules
# Being self controlling in terms of alcohol, sex, and other difficult to control urges
# General emphasis put on self control and self discipline to varying degrees as opposed to more focus on "living in the moment" and throwing responsibilities to the wind

Among other points that are incorporated into most religions.

These benefits have had a large number of benefits both to the overall quality of life, length of life length (although in that area, the social end of it is more prevalent, but still doesn't nearly account for everything). Additionally, will power and self control, things which have been time and time again linked far more strongly to success than any other characteristic (such as intelligence), are far stronger.

Furthermore, it's been evidenced that people who are generally successful and happy while being a non-believer of any form of faith have simply replaced these key points with their own, secular adaptations that have similar affects (such as meditation, a nutrition regimen, and the 7 habits of successful people for example) -- adding on sets of rules and an underlying structure to their lives.

Depending on your personal views, you could see these benefits as obvious benefits for being religious, or as some of the reasons that religion is so prevalent. I don't care which you believe.

But again, regardless of your view on religion, it's impact upon society at least in terms of success, will power, and general quality and length of life have been and continue to be huge.

Personally I'm still somewhat undecided on my own religious views, but at the same time, I still respect it based on the raw statistics that unbiased parties have discovered, and have been cross referenced and peer reviewed and deemed as valid.