Religion & Spirituality: Are "Dignity" and "Ego" two sides of the same coin?

No.

Dignity: bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.

Ego: egotism; conceit; self-importance.

Self-importance and self-respect are not "two sides of the same coin." In fact, reading the definition, we see that one's "dignity" can, and should, change relative to the situation you find yourself in. Ego may change over time, but at any given time, it would remain the same regardless of the situation.

You can make an argument that -- "Ego[tism] is Dignity taken to an extreme that is not merited by the reality of one's own worth, due to an inflation of the same resulting form one's own subjective experience."

no. Religion and Spirituality go out to everything in our environment, and like most topics, the traits assigned and the traits earned are two different things.

Dignity is assigned. It is something I give by my perception of an individual whose reputation, behavior, and self-perception are right-sized. Ego is earned. It is a personal assessement of what I have earned, based on achievement.

The other side to Dignity is Authority, another assigned trait. The other side to Ego is Humility, (not humiliation).

Dignity is something you gain through honorable acts and Ego is something that shows off as being self centered. Ego can't be earned either, it is just there. Dignity is a way more positive thing than Ego.

Both of them would be nothing without the observed values of the majority of our environment. They are two sides of the same coin. Then again, they're really not.

nope. people's egos are so much bigger than their dignity. if there were more rationalism, instead of intuitivism; then the coin might be worth something.

religion is the exact opposite of dignity, it destroys the idea of individuality and ego, it tells man he is inferior and cannot have anything without submitting to the force of a superior god who he must both fear and love at the same time and also attribute all of his achievements and successes to, religion tells man to act irrationally, primitively and immorally and to do all of these with absolutely no evidence and in complete faith, it tells man he is nothing without god, that man cannot even tell right from wrong without god and tells man he deserves to suffer for being alive. it tells man to embrace the utter dictatorship of a god who will constantly monitor his every thought and action and constantly judge him not only all of his life but for all eternity for both his actions and thoughts... I say, f*ck off.

I think they are similar. Both speak to a valued sense of self.

I disagree.

Both are too vast and varied to be defined by such limited constructs.