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At the sessions end an hour later, however, as the participants clasped hands, instead of reciting the Lords Prayer in usual A.A. fashion, they said together, Live and let live.
This meeting, as the parting phrase suggests, is one of a growing number within A.A. that appeal to nonreligious people in recovery, who might variously describe themselves as agnostics, atheists, humanists or freethinkers. While such groups were rare even a decade ago, now they number about 150 nationally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/us/alcoholics-anonymous-without-the-religion.html?_r=0
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)in the right direction.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 25, 2014, 01:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Squash thoughts of usage when they emerge ...
Tell that hungry beast-brain NO! ...
NO NO NO NO NO!
Doesn't work so well for cigarettes and ice cream sundaes ... but it's worked for me for years ...
I'm not diseased ... I'm a normal human being with a significant appetite for mood alterants, which I CAN control ...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)My kitties. The problem is, that probably won't be a good plan when I have to start going to Cataholics Anonymous.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)what I liked best about the 12 Step groups I went to (Al-Anon and ACoA).
No God stuff.
In fact, I had remarked one time to a family friend (alcoholic and long time member of AA, also a religion fanatic) that the non-God concept worked so well that it would be nice to see people around the world just give up GOD and religion altogether and choose a Higher Power instead.
He was disturbingly adamant in telling me a big fat "NO!!!" although he couldn't explain why people having Higher Powers would be a bad idea whereas people fighting over whose god/religion was bigger/badder/better than someone else's is OK.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)at the end of the meetings, not the Lord's Prayer.
"instead of reciting the Lords Prayer in usual A.A. fashion" I'm not sure that's the usual A.A. fashion.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)However the meeting I chair we do the Serenity Prayer.
G.O.D. to me means Good Orderly Direction - my Higher Power
irisblue
(33,023 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I sometimes got to ACA meetings (Adult Children of Alcoholics) and it's the Serenity Prayer.