Originally Posted by
sienna76 
Hmm, I've always thought ACA meant ACoA since "of" is sometimes optional, but now I see ACA is something else!
I too wondered about the HP thing. So atheists would not work in these meetings since they don't acknowledge any HP ?
Um, ACoA does = ACA. I'm relatively new to it, but according to the ACA Big Book, they officially call it ACA, but some people call it ACoA or ACOA. Same thing.
And atheists (or at least agnostics -- see the chapter called "We Agnostics" in the AA Big Book) can function perfectly well in the programs. I guess there was a lot of discussion about what to do, before they settled on talking about "God as we understood him."
T (self-described "Vaughan Williams Christian," which, if you look it up, equals basically an atheist who goes to church because the music is good)