I'm sorry to state that I refuse to agree with ayoitsStepho on this one; it relies solely upon the assumption that the ONLY reason god created us was because his angels ended up going to war with each other and killing each other off. The only reason he made the angels in the first place was so that they could endlessly worship him and say how great a guy he was and so on without end. They weren't created for any purpose other than a selfish desire for ego inflation of god, and when they screwed that up, he decided to make humans to continue the ego inflation trend.
The capacity of being able to think for yeurself, and the capacity to feel pleasure are not benefits given to us for our benefit, but rather, thinking for yeurself means the praise feels 'real' and not hollow; if yeu made a bunch of mindless robots endlessly repeating the same prayers over and over without end, it wouldn't feel all that great. But to make people actually WANT to do so, yeu have to give them a reason, and that reason is "it makes yeu feel good". If we had both free will, and no pleasure, we wouldn't worship god. If we had pleasure and no free will, then the pleasure would be pointless. If we have no free will then our praise means nothing.
The only purpose for individuals beyond this, is therefore to influence each other. How many people were brutally tortured or killed in the bible to 'set an example' to others to 'encourage' the rest of the people to continue the trend of praise?
I absolutely refuse to look at god in this, the accepted dogma of the church. It's disgusting to think of a cruel being that has this large an ego that he has to create people for the sole purpose of getting to hear them brag about how great he is. I flat out refuse to accept that as the nature of god, or that my only purpose in life is to provide any service to such a horribly malicious being.
That being said, I'd like to think that there's meaning beyond our limited greedy and selfish understanding. I'd like to think that god is just being anthromorphized into being given false human traits, and that, if he exists in a manner similar to our understanding, that he is not a rude, arrogant, egotistical brat, and us little more than his dancing monkies.
If this is, however the case, I will be greatly pleased to disappoint him. If not the case, then I shall continue to seek my own purpose, which may or may not be divine in origin.
But to exist to give praise to someone who obviously doesn't deserve it, is not one of them, and not one I'm willing to accept.