The important thing is that you go to a meeting, any meeting, raise your hand, and get a sponsor. When I was in the Navy, I was certified and I led some AA/NA groups. If you are experiencing consequences, now's the time. Bittersmart, alcoholism is a life threatening illness. I know it seems like it isn't emergent, it very much is. There are some very easy workarounds for atheists for the steps (namely 3 and 6), and even though most groups are held in churches, they are not run by the churches or affiliated with them, it's just where they are.
AA works if you take it seriously. If a doctor told you that you had any other life threatening illness, you wouldn't hesitate to take care of it. This shouldn't be any different.
AA works if you take it seriously. If a doctor told you that you had any other life threatening illness, you wouldn't hesitate to take care of it. This shouldn't be any different.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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