From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... atheist.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance
often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic
or even the militant atheist.
2.
... atheist.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He cannot attain in even a
small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic,
or the atheist.
3.
... atheist.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Ed was an atheist.
4.
... atheist.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I was not an atheist.
5.
... atheist.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
6.
... atheist, an
agnostic, a skeptic, or have ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which
keeps you from accepting
what is in this book, I feel
sorry for you.
7.
... atheist claims
proof of the nonexistence of ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Religion says the existence of God can be proved; the agnostic says it can't be proved; and
the atheist claims proof of the nonexistence of God.
8.
... atheist, make
it emphatic that he does ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
If the man be agnostic or
atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception
of God.
9.
... atheist or
agnostic discovered that our own ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the time being, we who
were atheist or agnostic
discovered that our own
group, or A.A. as a whole, would suffice as a higher power.
10.
... atheist or
agnostic such an experience seems ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To one who feels he is an
atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to
continue as he is means
disaster, especially
if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.
11.
... atheist, or
former believer, we can stand ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
12.
... Atheist Society,
but he got through with ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
So did a friend of mine who
was a one-time vice-president of the American Atheist Society, but he got through with room to spare."
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