From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... regarding ourselves
as intelligent agents, spearheads of ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
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.
2.
... regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of regarding the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
3.
... regarding these
had been anything but scientific.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
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