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God has everything to do with the program of recovery outlined in the book. Without God, and action on the 12 step program, there is no recovery, only restless, irritable, and discontented dry-ness. For a time, until we either a) go back to drinking for relief, b) begin substituting our alcohol with other substances (usually antidepressants,anti-anxiety meds, or prescription sleeping pills) or c) drive our car off a cliff - or some other form of suicide. Because you do not have to drink to die of alcoholism.
Read page 52 in the Big Book, middle paragraph for a description of the bedevilments - that is what we suffer from if we are real alcoholics and don't work the 12 steps in their entirety.
So if your meetings are not in tune with that, then they are Fellowship only meetings, where it's more like group therapy. Which is fine if you're not a real acoholic. If you are a real alcoholic, the 12 steps will save your life. Without the 12 steps (path to God), you'll probably die in this disease in some form eventually - if you are a real alcoholic.
You can have a good sponsor take you through the first section of the Big Book to properly diagnose you as alcoholic or not. The Fellowship is chock full of hard drinkers (nonalcoholic) who think they are alcoholic because a judge or a treatment center or a pissed off spouse or an untreated AA member told them they were.
If that sounds black and white, cut and dried, no gray areas etc it's because it is. We don't question the symptomology and progression of, say, cancer. So we don't need to question the symptomology of untreated alcoholism. Countless legions of alcoholics have proven it time and again, both before AA, since AA, and in the rooms of AA.
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