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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RELIGION occurs
22 times
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1.
... religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
You've got a
nerve to
come in
here
talking religion!'
2.
... religion.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
So I can't tell you anything about religion.
3.
... religion.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Ten (Long)
4.
... religion."
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Simply, but
smilingly,
he said, "I've got
religion."
5.
... religion.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
So that was it --
last summer an
alcoholic crackpot; now, I
suspected, a
little cracked about
religion.
6.
... religion.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We, who have
traveled this
dubious path,
beg you to
lay aside prejudice, even
against
organized religion.
7.
... religion.
BB p.74,
Into Action
Though we have no
religious connection, we may still do well to
talk with someone
ordained by
an
established religion.
8.
... religion.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Let him see that you are not there to
instruct
him in
religion.
9.
... religion.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
10.
... religion.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does
A.A. take any
particular medical point of
view, though we
cooperate widely with the
men of
medicine as well as
with the
men of
religion.
11.
... religion and all its works.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Another
crowd of
A.A.'s says:
"We were
plumb disgusted
with
religion and all
its works.
12.
... religion and medicine, though some ideas upon ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The
basic principles of
A.A., as they are
known today, were
borrowed mainly from the
fields of
religion and
medicine,
though some
ideas upon which
success finally
depended
were the
result of
noting
the
behavior and
needs of
the
Fellowship itself.
13.
... religion and that instinct for association with ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
14.
... religion and the other around the shoulder ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
With one
arm around the
shoulder of
religion and the
other around the
shoulder of
medicine, we'd
resolve
their
differences.
15.
... religion, and the press, together with innumerable ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
16.
... religion, and those who are downright defiant ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into
indifference, those
filled with
self-
sufficiency who have
cut
themselves off, those who have
become prejudiced against
religion, and those who are
downright defiant because
God has
failed to
fulfill their
demands.
17.
... religion, he will make new friends and ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
If he does not
argue about
religion, he will make new
friends and is
sure to find
new
avenues of
usefulness and
pleasure.
18.
... religion is by no means the sole ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
But
today religion is by no
means the
sole advocate of this
saving principle.
19.
... religion of our choice?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And can we bring new
purpose and
devotion to the
religion of
our
choice?
20.
Religion says the existence of God can ...
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.
21.
... religion that would aid his recovery.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Finally, he saw that I wasn't
attempting to
change his
religious views, that I
wanted him to
find the
grace in his
own
religion that would
aid his
recovery.
22.
... religion' were still killing one another off ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we
loved to
shout the
damaging fact that
millions of the '
good men of
religion' were still
killing one another off in the
name of
God.
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