Children of God are referred to as Gods by God Himself. To reason otherwise is just false humility.
The Word of God has the Power to bring itself to pass in our lives.
Dare to call yourself what God calls you.
Identity affects what we think, what we feel, what we say and and what we do.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye...
Being a Christian is therefore not a betrayal of one's roots. If anything, it's an affirmations of such.