Welcome, Fifth Column. Your post was quite eloquent.
You said: "Each of us does well to ask himself, ‘Am I worshiping God in the way he has set out in the Bible?’
Perhaps it would do well for you to ask yourself: If at Armageddon, the killing was too much to handle for God's loving angels, and so they ask you to cut the throats of your neighbors for them, would you? Would you take up a sword in the name of Yahweh, like the Israelites did and slaughter men, women, and children? Or just look away and let others do the killing for you so that you can blindly bath in the wonderful beauty of your imagination?
You tell others to ask themselves about worshipping God, perhaps you should to some truly major-serious delving into your own out-of-balance ideas. You worship a God who readily kills, so you best do a very through job of it...or you may be one of the first to die.