That Frisian Girl-ish@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone
The gods you worship are essentially part of yourself.
That might sound like a controversial statement. Maybe it is one. But I'll try to elaborate.
Gods as external entities are big players. They wield big powers, have big intentions. These days, their role as entities that serve to explain how things are happening is at an end. It's not Thor's chariot that makes thunder, and it's not Zeus throwing bolts that are lightning. Nature and how it works are on many levels understood, at least to the degree that we can say that there's some form of regularity that we can model that does not rely on the will and doing of gods. It works better that way, too.
That scientific method behind it is a very good way to ask questions, and in its course eliminate human biases that prefer answers we like in favour of answers that reliably deliver good predictions.
This method is good at sussing out "how". It is not really applicable to "why", though. When trying to answer "why" we come to strange things like the anthropic principle, that asserts in smug circular reasoning, or over reified strangeness like the many worlds hypothesis. Reification of scientific ideas sounds as good to us these days as did deification back when.
But when it comes to that, we have to ask ourselves - even if every possible quantum state belongs to a real, existing world, is it even feasable to think of quantum states that encode even a single human decision? And then why am I in this particular one and not the other ones, and what about the myriad viable combinations that do not correspond to a coherent decision? Unless we're doing an anthropic principle again on this, we're stuck. Which we wanted to avoid. Bummer.
So we're left with a space for gods after all, a space that has been methodically yet(?) unclaimed. This space is our relationship to the whys of the universe. This space is partially, but not wholly to be conquered with reason, because if we try, we are still thrown back to a divine power of a human being - to create sense where none is. Or choose to despair and surrender.
As such, this space is not a fully rational space. So the nature of your gods is not to be fully rationally understood. It is a deeply personal, emotional, intimate connection, and can only be understood as such in your own capacity - since the other half is held by the respective god, bigger than you, strange to you, beyond your scope of understanding. As with your fellow human being, but exponentially more so.
What you do understand is an image of that god. Your personal god. An artifact of your understanding. Quintessentially, if true, a projection of that god into you. Part of you.
This has interesting consequences. Especially when hate comes into the equation with the god in question. Why do you worship something about yourself that you hate? Why is that worship tied to hate of someone on your own level of existence? That hate comes, in both cases, from you, and you should ask yourself why hate is essential in answering your questions about the universe, your place in it, and yourself.