Why do people worship their favorite imaginary deity out of fear?

@LordShadowfire
A good steak is cheaper =

2 Kings 6:25 (CEB) ="The siege lasted so long that there was a great famine in Samaria. A donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter kab of doves’ dung for five shekels."

Isaiah 36:12 (CEB) = "The field commander said to them, “Did my master send me to speak these words just to you and your master and not also to the men on the wall? They are the ones who will have to eat their dung and drink their urine along with you.”

@LordShadowfire
Did you know that the Jews recommend using the shit of a white dog to treat catarrh?

Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Gittin
Folio 69a & Folio 69b =

"For catarrh10 he should take about the size of a pistachio of gum-ammoniac and about the size of a nut of sweet galbanum and a spoonful of white honey and a Mahuzan natla11 of clear12 wine and boil them up together; when the gum-ammoniac boils, it is all boiled enough. If he cannot manage this, let him take a revi'ith of milk of a white goat
To Part b
and let it drip on three stalks of carob and stir it with a piece of stem of marjoram; when the stem of marjoram is boiled it is all boiled enough. He can also take the excrement of a white dog and knead it with balsam, but if he can possibly avoid it he should not eat the dog's excrement as it loosens the limbs."
http://www.come-and-hear.com/gittin/gittin_69.html