I disagree when you say AA is a waste of time when you don't believe in god. There are plenty of people who have found a way to make AA make sense for them despite the whole god thing.
http://aaagnostica.org/wp-content/upload...-09-21.pdf
^This book was written by an atheist AA member. He talks all about how he made sense of AA without any of the god bullshit. The whole higher power concept in AA, whether people will admit it or not, is about ego deflation. Which can be a GOOD thing for people like addicts, to SOME extent.
Don't let 'god' scare you away from AA if there are parts of it that make sense to you. Take what you can and leave the rest, as they would say lol
AA has a lot of silliness in it. It really does, which usually comes more so from people's interpretations of how things should be in AA rather than what the Big Book actually says. And even the Big Book is not looked at in a logical rational way, it's more seen as the BIBLE of sobriety. When you have a question, people will answer with some quote from the big book just like they would quote you scripture. So there IS a lot of BS you'd have to deal with as an atheist in AA. But I have several atheist friends who are in AA and they find a way to make it work for them.
I suppose it depends on how important your sobriety is to you and what you think makes sense for you.
http://aaagnostica.org/wp-content/upload...-09-21.pdf
^This book was written by an atheist AA member. He talks all about how he made sense of AA without any of the god bullshit. The whole higher power concept in AA, whether people will admit it or not, is about ego deflation. Which can be a GOOD thing for people like addicts, to SOME extent.
Don't let 'god' scare you away from AA if there are parts of it that make sense to you. Take what you can and leave the rest, as they would say lol
AA has a lot of silliness in it. It really does, which usually comes more so from people's interpretations of how things should be in AA rather than what the Big Book actually says. And even the Big Book is not looked at in a logical rational way, it's more seen as the BIBLE of sobriety. When you have a question, people will answer with some quote from the big book just like they would quote you scripture. So there IS a lot of BS you'd have to deal with as an atheist in AA. But I have several atheist friends who are in AA and they find a way to make it work for them.
I suppose it depends on how important your sobriety is to you and what you think makes sense for you.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
