Belteshazzar

its been quite a while since i last wrote some thoughts from bible reading..

an interesting thought came to me as I read Daniel 1, regarding Belteshazzer:
Belteshazzer means "after the name of my god Bel", and is the babylonian name given to Daniel.
Daniel has said no to the royal food & wine, but not this insulting name.
There are more than enough reasons to say no to Belteshazzer, and absolutely Godly reasons too:
I would rather die a martyr than to be identified with this sinful idolatory!
or
My jewish name is God given and so important to me and my faith and I would not be defiled by such a name!
etc etc etc...
so wat is Godly & wat is not? if he has said those perfectly Godly words to refuse Belteshazzer and got killed, is he still the Godly prophet Daniel of Bible?

wat is Godly & wat is not?
watever Godly noble things we believe we are doing, are they reali Godly?
one question also lingered in my mind in the past few weeks:
wat is the difference between Dolly Carey & Harriet Shelley? and hence their respective husbands?
The family neglect part of the first husband's story is largely omitted, the purified story then transcribed onto many Christian newsletters & magazines as saintly encouragement to missionary workers.
And the second husband's story is used as an embodiment of sinful marital & family neglect, entering into an anthology of insight & reflections of sinners.
O___O
reali--
O___O

or should the doing "Godly" work part be the dividing line, be the right for omission or even justification of the unpleasant aspect of one's character?
then are we reali trying to say: the man is nothing--his work is everything.
we can be sure the Bible didn't say that, Flaubert did.
lets just say anyone mature in God won't think of Carey as a lesser man because it was found that he neglected his family.
Because we should know everyone is a sinner, and even the most holy of man is human.
And God forgives.

----and shelley's poetry is beautiful.