From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
2.
... religion.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
3.
... religion.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Ten (Long)
Ten -- No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial issues
-- particularly those
of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.
4.
... religion."
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
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
9.
... religion.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
10. No A.A.
group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial
issues -- particularly those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.
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
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.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
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
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration
of friends -- friends in
medicine, religion, and
the press, together with
innumerable others
who became our able and persistent advocates.
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
19.
... religion of
our choice?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
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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