Excellent deconstruction of the whole "having God around" concept. lol!
It's one scenario to add unneeded stress of trying to please an entity that is perceived as a everlasting paternal figure, that one cannot empirically verify, when knowing that life will already throw curve balls at you, but to add on top of that by having a punitive god as your deity of worship..that seems outright deranged. If it works for those people in question to have more stresses for their beliefs, if their deity is benevolent ,or even deistic..well that's their prerogatives. But In most cases it's not really a mater of choice for those individuals now is it? Since religion like any other indoctrination into ideology, starts at childhood. I strongly doubt you'll meet any Republican, Libertarian, Anarchist, Socialist or Democrat babies, but i'd bet my left pinkie finger that you'll find baby Christians, Muslims, Jews Hindus, etc.
"Does deity X approve of this?" or " Does deity X disapprove of that?" That equates to, in my views, and is a indication of child-parent relationships/psychology in grown adults. "Would sky dad/mom like it if i did this?" or "Would sky dad/mom not like that i did this?"
I understand everyone wants to feel secure in knowing that someone or something is watching out for them, or has concerns for what will happen to their consciousnesses after they die. However, is seems almost self defeating and a borderline self fulling prophecy of failure that the deity you worship is grouchy, judgmental, vengeful and has expectations that you can strive for ,but will ultimately fail at due to your inadequacies of being a human in comparison of this supreme being. This is the same being, mind you, whom if you fail them, they will end up condemning you to suffering in a alternate realm of existence for all eternity. How does one even try to attempt communication or have a relationship with a being like that? Why even bother? Why would such entity or being go through the effort of creating such fallible, contradictory creatures if not beyond the purpose of its' own amusement or study? What kind of conversation could you have if any, or better yet how could you function knowing that every second that this entity is judging every thought you have or every action you commit and slots them against it's supposed rules and guidelines written down by other fallible humans in the holy text of that you use to worship said deity?
I fail to see the rational behind continuing to worship such a deity, or any deity for that matter. It's far more palpable and convenient when worship of a deity is one-sided and it helps that the deity is: invisible, resides somewhere we cannot enter in our mortal lives or are beyond our capacity for understanding.( Again why even bother attempting to have a relationship with it or it having a relationship with us, if it's that advanced and above us?) But those are the traits we've ascribed to these gods, which are egregious cop outs to curtail the questioning or skeptical people, both of which are cancers to religion. I've never been outright conditioned or raised to have unquestioning devotion for any of the deities mankind has fabricated. So for me, worshiping a god that sounds like, is believed to be, and is portrayed like, a distant and apathetic step parent, doesn't sound like a worthwhile religion to practice. It sounds more like a avenue for unnecessary stress and endless nights, laying awake in your bed, contemplating whether or not you made your parent in the sky happy that day for fear of your "soul" going through immeasurable pain and anguish.
If deity X gave you lemons after all your devotion, find a new deity.