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On the Selfishness of Worship:
Just because you do something because it's pleasurable doesn't mean that it's a selfish act. First of all, I'm not convinced that even if the fact that it's pleasurable is the only reason, that that action is for that reason selfish. If I go down to the soup kitchen to serve the poor because it gives me pleasure, does that make it selfish? Perhaps not as praiseworthy as it might otherwise be, but selfish? Second of all, most of our actions are done for a variety of reasons, and worshipping God is no exception. Some of the reasons people worship God are habit, gratitude, pride, love, need, and I suspect one could add many more. Some are good reasons and some are bad.
Mothers
Well, sure you don't worship your mother. But in ordinary cases, you feel grateful to her. But what God has done for us is on a much larger scale than that. It's not just that he started us off -- it is in him that we live and breathe and have our being. God IS our Being.
This also answers the question of which entity -- if we owe our existence to an entity in such a robust sense, there can only be one such entity.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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