If he exists... then I don't see anything wrong with thanking him for it. I do see things wrong with groveling, begging, and excessively laying down praise before him... should you grovel, beg, and excessively praise your parents?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day