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Hi Kali,
Well, I scored as "Pagan" on that "What religion are you?" quiz Historyteach posted at the Cafe so I suppose I have pagan tendancies, and my family calls me a 'tree-hugging hippie freak'; does that suffice to qualify me to respond here? I've never attended an AA meeting but have attended about 16 NA meetings in the past year. God and Higher Power is an integral part of their philosophy, I understand why that is, and can work with it/ around it by understanding for myself what is my defintion of God. Mention of God does not intimidate or anger or upset me in any way because of that personal understanding. And the allowance of everyone else to determine for their own self what is the God of their understanding. I have no need to convert others or define or defend my position to anyone, and have never been asked to at an NA function, nor has anyone there ever tried to convert me. YOU determine for yourself what that is, and incorporate that into what you hear.
If you keep an open mind to consider the point behind why there's a need for one to incorporate God/ Higher Power in the program it might actually help you to define for yourself the reasoning behind your own thinking. Keeping an open mind is a cornerstone of recovery, because it allows new thinking to enter in. And addicts do need outside perspective to get outside our own best thinking. The more, the better, it seems. Good luck making up your mind on this.
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