Resolved: YHWH should not be worshipped

Again, I will postpone my rebuttal to your R2 argument until closing. I see that my arguments against his malice did not work, nor did my arguments against his personal effect on us. In my third round, I will simply posture that, although God is real and all powerful, our creator... our lives are fine without worshiping him. I give this in the example that millions (possibly billions?) of people have lived on Earth without worshiping God in their lives, many of them happy lives. Now, as stated in R1, hell isn't a Lake of Fire (at least not yet). Hell would simply mean "removed from God"... or at worst, a "sleep". That isn't to say that when the last days come, those in Hell won't be cast into the Lake of Fire, but some groups (the Seventh-Day Adventists for one) believe that means to Oblivion... I guess that depends whether you believe that Hell is eternal suffering. I posit though, that it is not.. and that is vital to my argument. There are those who live on Earth without worshipping God, they will die and exist in Sheol without worshipping God and will one day cease to exist (as I assume, they already believe they will cease to exist upon death, and have come to terms with that). So, clearly then.. those who do not believe are comfortable in their afterlife or lack thereof and see no advantage to worshipping Him for that reason. Maybe it would then be good to worship Him for the benefits we get on Earth? But that isn't true either, is it? There are many many people who exist on Earth that do just fine without worshipping YHWH. Their earthly lives are just as good comparatively as their Christian brothers (obviously Christians would argue against this, but their atheist brothers would not agree). So why worship Him here? I do now realize your own personal experience has been quite different, but did you need YHWH to do it? Could you have not conjured that strength yourself as many of your atheist Brothers have? No. no. no.... I say we should not worship YHWH because, frankly, it doesn't make a lick of difference in our Earthly lives if we do or not. It is just an extra expense with no benefit. And for our afterlives, if the only benefits are being with YHWH and Jesus and Eternal Life... I say... I don't need that... either of them. I feel no need to be with YHWH and Christ for eternity and I certainly don't want to live forever... isn't living forever usually portrayed as a curse? I can think of few exceptions. For more on that subject, might wanna give some Isaac Asimov a read... http://www.thrivenotes.com... Truly a wonderful short story how a perfectly rational person would come to the conclusion that not only should we not worship "god", but that our goal should be to destroy Him (as is His goal too actually).... very interesting So, although I'm sure you will counter that you needed God in your life... the simply fact is that most people don't.. we just don't need Him in our lives... thanks for creating us and all.. and not killing us instantaneously upon us denouncing you... but just keep things how they are and so will we... thanks! So, my third argument wraps up to: We shouldn't worship YHWH because we'll be just fine without worshiping Him.