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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

aghast
agitated
agnostically
AGNOSTICS   occurs   5 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
See also...     agnostic
ago
agonized
agony

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1.
... agnostics.   BB p.44, We Agnostics   Go to page 44 in the Big Book
But cheer up, something like half of us thought we were atheists or agnostics.


2.
... agnostics.   BB p.45, We Agnostics   Go to page 45 in the Big Book
Here difficulty arises with agnostics.


3.
... agnostics and atheists chose to believe that ...   BB p.49, We Agnostics   Go to page 49 in the Big Book
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.


4.
... agnostics and atheists were sticking to the ...   BB p.52, We Agnostics   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
We agnostics and atheists were sticking to the idea that self-sufficiency would solve our problems.

5.
... agnostics who still cling to the A.A. ...   12&12 p.96, Step Eleven
To certain newcomers and to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the logic and experience in proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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