It has been my experience that most people do not have a feeling of self-worth. What I mean by having a feeling of self-worth, or self-esteem, is the feeling that you are as good as anyone else in this world. This isn’t surprising, when considering all of the commercials we see showing beautiful people being portrayed as being perfect and leading perfect lives. Or that the “experts” are constantly telling us how dumb we are. Even the revealed religions, which are supposed to make feel better about ourselves, tell us that we are not worthy in the eyes of God.

With all of this propaganda being fed down our throats, it is only normal to feel of less importance than the rich and famous. But being Deists, we don’t have to be a part of the “norms.” We are free to examine our paradigms and conclude that we are equal to anyone. Obviously, we are not equally endowed by our creator to do some things as well as others may do them. But we all have our unique abilities, which do make us equal with everyone else. Just because our unique abilities do not lend themselves to making a great deal of money, or otherwise making us stand out from the crowd, doesn’t mean that we aren’t just as important to God or ourselves. I am, self-admittedly, the most important person in the world to me. And you should recognize that you are the most important person in the world to yourself.

Yes, I love my wife and son, and would die for either in a heart beat, still that is only because I think that my life would not be right without them. So it is only my own selfish desires that place others before myself. And that is true of most of us, if not all of us.

Some people will seemly put others ahead of themselves, but this is for their selfish desires of being respected by society. All too many people consider society’s, often perverted, sense of a person’s worth and take it to heart as the final arbitrator. But keep in mind that, society’s standards are conditioned into us from the time we start learning how to talk. Society’s heroes are forced upon our children by television, radio, and school. Parents will often unwittingly perpetuate authority or “expert” worship. The revealed religions are maybe the worst at conditioning people so that they feel they are unworthy of a life of happiness. For differing self serving reasons, parts of our society condition us with their propaganda.