Originally Posted by
failedtaper 
You lost me at Step 2.
Just ignore this step; it's a process; you do not have to believe in anything. Even the Big Book just suggests that we be willing to believe. Or just use Group Of Drunks for G.O.D.
The power in the process is the inventory, discussing it, and making amends; it's an age old process that works. No-one need believe in any 'woo woo' stuff to do that.
Clancy I does a very good talk where he explains how the first three steps have kept many people out of A.A. and/or doing the program, and he explains how he and others have done this program without the concept of a Magical Higher Power, with great success.
That's why I'm a fan of secular 12 Steps; but I'm also a fan of regular 12 Steps too; both work, but the secret isn't in the belief or non belief of a Higher Power concept, but in the action parts of the steps.