It certainly looks like interesting reading. I'll likely spend more time reading it thoroughly later. I'm at work now so just breezed through it.
I too was forced to go to church and I rejected the theories (Catholicism). Later in life, I watched my family follow the Catholic church while living a purely hypocritical lifestyle. I have severed ties with many of them as I feel they are not positive influences on my life.
I don't think I've hit bottom with my life. I think I had a sort of vision of what my life would be should I continue. I desperately do not want that. And so I am working hard at a plan to continue sobriety and form a new kind of life. Going to the AA mtgs is part of that plan of doing something different to make sure I'm successful at this.
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1_day@_a_time 
No issues, no offense taken. I know I had to read & re-read this many times myself. Still do after 9+ yrs. I sure did not read that then proclaim, I get it! I have found Him! LOL..no way...
I was forced to go to church as a child and was not really in anyway a big believer. A few things did happen along the way that allowed me to have an open mind. (love the definition as being: "a mind not occupied with self")
Mainly I had hit my bottom in life. I was done, finished and KNEW I not only needed, but wanted a new way of life.
Plain & simple. My way did not work. At all.
SO, what next.........that was my dilemma.