Christianity and its effect on self-worth

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One aspect of this idea (that everybody is a dirty rag) is that everybody is equalized somewhat. In the real world, some people rise to the top and some people sink to the bottom. The people that rise to the top have self-worth, and others don't. With globalization and mega-sizing, the self-worth becomes concentrated in a fortunate few. Christianity teaches that everybody is equally worthless, but everybody is valued by Jesus. That's somewhat positive psychologically IMO.

Now that I'm an atheist, I take satisfaction in knowing that nobody great or small is very important in the larger scheme. I get my self-worth by imagining myself as a part of a self-aware universe. So I get the same positive psychological effect, but I don't have the baggage of Christianity.