Bloody poll: would you worship a God whose existence was certain?

[Angrboda]

Wait a minute, rasetsu. So if Kali turned out to be nothing more than Jehovah's hit-man (hit-person?), would you still be tight with her? Common, you know you couldn't hang with that guy.

There are a lot of unanswered questions about such hypotheticals which would have to be faced before a serious answer could be given. The most serious being how I know that my belief in this Jehovah entity is reliable. As a person who has had psychotic delusions since the age of 4, I realize the epistemic questions are far from trivial. How do I know that what the being claims, that they are a god with such and such powers and past, is not just the lie of a very powerful, superhuman non-god?

My preliminary cost/benefit analysis seemed to imply that trusting such a being was not a cost effective proposition. There are various ways to assess risk, and in a straight cost/benefit analysis, risk is quantified as a liability or cost; the greater the risk, the greater the liability. The ideal situation would be that I worship the entity for eternity and reap eternal reward. But the number of scenarios where my worship isn't adequately rewarded greatly outnumber such scenarios, including one in which I pay in worship, and am rewarded with eternal suffering. And there is no oversight, so I have no redress if he defaults on any bargain. In short, the cost exceeds the benefit to my understanding of such things. So, buying a pig in a poke, of this nature, doesn't seem like a wise investment.

If I knew for certain that worship would help me avoid terrible consequences, I would do it, but there's no guarantees such a being could provide me that it would faithfully fulfill the bargain, and it's foolish to offer blind trust to anyone, no matter what they promise you. I trust based on my history with another. I've known Kali from before I could hear or speak. The trust is there, and would remain. In particular, if this god Yahweh claimed to be the god of the bible, I don't see that I would want to develop a trust relationship with that being; I'm not even sure I could. Yahweh, as portrayed in the bible is a two-timing, faithless asshole. Why would I even try to trust that being? Would it not be unwise to even begin?