Well, if you need to worship someone, I think that alot of the religions provide an outlet for people seeking for a spiritual mother/father figure in their life. As you grow older, and as your parents die, the shadow of death will often hang upon you. It's during these times that usually people become more spiritual, but it's exactly at this time when people may want to believe in a higher father/mother God, and thus worshipping is born.
What the C's said is that Jesus and other historical spiritual prophets such as Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, etc. have been placed in some sort of a "statis" in a higher dimension, providing assistance, protection and guidance to those who remain in our immediate physical reality, the 3rd dimension.
Can one distinguish between worship and a call for protection? Even if this wasn't true, the belief that a higher power is looking out for you is a comforting notion that no one can deny. Belief is the most powerful thing... consider placebo effects where people are healed of their ailment when all along they've been taking sugar-pills.
But in general, I'd agree with you...any entity that wishes to be worshipped, and put on a pedestal, has some serious self-esteem issues. What I think we're looking for, more or less, is appreciation and love for all of Creation, even the "bad" guys...Sociopaths aside, most "evil" people are individuals who have chosen another path in their spiritual evolution, have desided to stagnate at a particular level basing their lives around greed and dominance, or are simply "wanderers", prone to rash decisions in a world they perceive as harsh and cruel.
Speaking of loosh farms, churches, monasteries, mosques, temples, and all the other synonyms that are used to describe places of worship, are definitely places where the focused energy of prayer and belief is quite powerful. Any place can be imbued with such power, given the ammount of thought, meditation, and hopefully, love that is focused upon at any given spot on the Earth.
I had a dream once where there was a boy getting into a heated argument with a shepard in a rugged mountain valley. I said to the boy "Let it be...just walk away, argument is pointless with some people." And as we were walking up a trail, the land transformed into a beautiful, pristine landscape on the dawn of a foggy morning. Rolling green hills were all around us, and we decided to sit down.
As we sat there, we noticed that a crop circle, representing a key of somesort, was unfolding beneath us in the valley. As we looked about the land, we noticed there was a lone building off in the distance.
The boy said "Look, there's a monastery!".
I replied "That's not a monastery, that's a space station!" as we saw lights entering and exiting this building, with a flashing red light on top to guide these visitors to and from their destinations.
Churches need not be places of furthering the control of the elite and their astral counterparts, but places of liberation and knowledge from the common, mundane life of many people. It'll definitely be interesting to see what role religion will play in the future, to say the least. Hopefully, it will be modern but based on easily understood parables where the entire depth of the symbolism is shared and added upon in an open forum.
Anyways, just a couple of thoughts.
"Don't eat any wooden nickels."