You talked of a mystery, that is something we don't know the answer to, i.e. we are ignorant of the answer, then calling it god and then you talked about worshipping. I don't see how that isn't worshipping ignorance.
In the context of this thread, I have no idea why there is something rather than nothing and I don't understand why I would want to call that ignorance god, let alone worship it. Makes no sense to me.
I can see that. Everyone has their own spin, if they have one, in how they relate to the mystery of life. Some people don't care and go on with the life they experience around them. Many others say there is something in them, something "more" about life they are called to know beyond what they experience. It's like if you have a child. You can say you love your child and focus more on your family and experience you have now.
Or you can go beyond that, and connect with your love for your child. Ponder in how that parent and child connection is something if broken would actually kill you. That emphasis and connection, the source of it, is what people call god.
As for worshiping it, that is purely culture. Some parents would like their youth to respect them by bowing. Americans are more "eye-to-eye" approach of respect. Children in both cases are expected to help their parents. The reasoning behind this is the connection and love as the source (aka god) with whom these actions (worship rituals) are based on.
I'm sure you can kinda understand that when put in a parent/child perspective?
It's basically no simpler than that. I agree with you that we don't understand worshiping a mystery anthropomorphize as a deity. But that's just concept. Beyond that, they are just making love a higher value and control over their life. Through which, worship (practice of gratitude) within and act of this love becomes the cornerstone of their life. They live in love.
God is love.
Without the cultural jargon, it's pretty easy to understand. Maybe you're hooked on the jargon?