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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.
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So that was it -- last summer
an alcoholic crackpot;
now, I suspected, a little cracked about religion.
4.
We, who have traveled this dubious path, beg you to lay aside prejudice, even against organized religion.
5.
Though we have no religious connection, we
may still do well to talk with someone ordained by an established religion.
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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.
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10.
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.
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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
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
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.
With one arm around the shoulder of religion and the other around the shoulder of medicine, we'd resolve their
differences.
15.
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.
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.
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness and
pleasure.
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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.
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.
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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