Should the ticket to heaven really be “worship me?”
Such a needy being for being a perfect being.
I think it’s way less about “worship,” as that word is commonly understood, than “recognize reality and act accordingly because you want to.”
If there’s a perfect and benevolent being who, having granted us free will, provides a way for us to overcome our inherent sinfulness (rather than condemning us outright or negating that free will), it makes zero sense to say, “God, you’re so needy.”
I think one would naturally “worship” the perfect and benevolent being who created them. I think it’s less a requirement than a WTH is wrong with a person who doesn’t appreciate that perfect being who created existence.
I do not understand the rituals and rote recitations and banal songs that occupy much time in religious services. I wonder if even God thinks it’s nice but you people are focusing energy in the wrong areas.