What made sense to me was and is this... God (in a general sense) can not be proven or disproven. Accordingly, both the athiest and believer have the same starting point; faith. Higher Purpose works for me in the context of making the aa program work in a constructive way. I am intellectually capable
of buying exclusively into a concept of God as expressed by an institution managed by man. Other stuff is out there as well, SMART, rational recovery etc. We all pick our own poison as well as our own cure.