This looks like an interesting and active forum, and I have enjoyed reading through the various posts. I am only recently comfortable, actually I think happy best describes the feeling, that I am in fact an atheist.
I did not grow up in a religion so I don't have any of that baggage, but I have been a member of AA for 23 years, sober and reasonably happy. I am not yet 50, so about half my life has been spent living and working the 12 steps. I see no conflict with being an atheist in AA at all, but it is still difficult for me to express my lack of belief in supernatural Gods to my friends in AA. This has more to do with my own insecurities than anything else. I hope to break out of this in the near future and to be as comfortable expressing my atheism as others seem to be in expressing their theism.
Reading through the posts here, I can see that my intellect and knowledge of science is not on par with so many of you, though I definitely share with you that science offers far better explanations of the universe than do the various religions.
I look forward to getting to know you all better.
I did not grow up in a religion so I don't have any of that baggage, but I have been a member of AA for 23 years, sober and reasonably happy. I am not yet 50, so about half my life has been spent living and working the 12 steps. I see no conflict with being an atheist in AA at all, but it is still difficult for me to express my lack of belief in supernatural Gods to my friends in AA. This has more to do with my own insecurities than anything else. I hope to break out of this in the near future and to be as comfortable expressing my atheism as others seem to be in expressing their theism.
Reading through the posts here, I can see that my intellect and knowledge of science is not on par with so many of you, though I definitely share with you that science offers far better explanations of the universe than do the various religions.
I look forward to getting to know you all better.
