My stance in Christianity would be completely contradictory to your assertion, considering it is so damaging to ones own ego. I agree that we are ego-holics/self-conceited. I believe we, as humans, were made in Gods image. For man to be made in Gods image is to say that man and women can reflect and reproduce at our own creaturely level the holy ways of God. And in one sense we are truly human to the extent that we fulfill it. Genesis 1:1-25 sets forth God as personal, rational (having intelligence and will), creative, ruling over the world He has made, and morally admirable. (in that all He creates is good). So Gods image will reflect these qualities. Verses 28-30 show God blessing the newly created humans an setting them to rule creation as His representatives and deputies. The human capacity for communication and relationship with both God and other humans appears as a further aspect of the image. To be created in the image of God also means to have an eternal soul, or spirit (Gen 2:7), as personal and self conscious, with a God like capacity for knowledge, thought, and action. It also means to be morally pure, a quality which was lost in the fall, but now being progressively restored in Christ (Eph. 4:24, Col 3:10).