A feeling of integrity and self worth is more important than loyalty to the parents' identity?
If only b/c I am not sure what you are after, are you saying that the only way my daughter can have self worth is to be completely different from myself or her mother?
b/c as of now her mother and I hold two steady jobs, have been completely faithful to each other, give back to the community, give to charity, help others out, and try to take care of the environment in small ways to help reduce our carbon foot print, all the while going to church and have an interactive relationship with Christ.
So in other words you deem the only way for her to have self worth is to
Live on welfare, have multiple partner, rape and plunder the land and community, and denounce god?
How can you find self worth in that? How can you find integrity in that?
Perhaps you have a misconception about how my faith and my relationship with god factor into who I am and how I am made
My faith is not who I am, a good person is who I am, a kind, patient and loving person is who I am
My Faith and relationship with god were tools that help shape me into the man I am, but they are not the man I am
And like any good craftsman, artist, and fabricator god used those tools to make me, and just like he can make a cup he can make a bowl, hammer, car, plane, ship, the list goes on
What I know is I am very happy with how he helped me grow and what he has brought into my life, (health, wife, home, friends, family) and b/c I know the system I was brought up in can work I will use it to help my daughter and pray that she can reach the point I have
