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IMO, the psychological reason for it, is because we live within a society, if we do not have "Something greater than us" to put us in our place, then we will have a world of meglomaniacs. Leadership knows that unless society is allowed and encouraged to be properly educated, this would destroy society.

Worshiping something is a way to drive home the concept of being "smaller" and "less significant" than that which you worship.

Everybody religiously "gives worth to something" in one way or another:

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Worship (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually [meaning “not always”] directed to one or more deities. The word is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something.
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And if not, you would not have made your post.

It's also because it provides a catch-all answer to any existential question that someone might throw at you. Religion is for people who can't be bothered to think for themselves, or can't bear to comprehend the idea that their lives have no inherent meaning attributed to them by an external authority.

While I agree totally with what you've just said, it wasn't really the issue being discussed. Religion and Worship are two different topics. Though religion usually entails some sort of worship, the comment being referred to wasn't about having religion, it was about the mere concept of worshiping something or someone.

Worship doesn't provide a catchall to anything, it doesn't answer questions, it doesn't physically do anything except perhaps two things... Denigrate the worshiper, and create a mental focus. There are few better ways to do the former, but many better ways to do that later.

I give worth to a decent meal or feeling good in the morning or having a good friend. I hardly worship them. There is a sense of elf debasement in worship that is denigrating.