Thread: I'm challenged
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Old 07-29-2006, 11:10 AM
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Don S
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Originally Posted by Autumn
Can the "secularists" (how ever it's defined here - sounds like everyone is; after all, everyone worked their 12-step programs differently) go into the AA forum unabashed and speak freely about how their program isn't based on a higher power? How would that be welcomed?
Been there, done that.

Originally Posted by Autumn
....How about in the "Christians in Recovery" forum?
Been there, done that. It was going pretty well until I got kind of rude. So the moderator locked it. Which makes a good point, I guess.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...hristians.html

Originally Posted by Autumn
Was/is it too much to ask to be free of AA/NA rhetoric, EVER??

Never did the phrase ring truer than it does now: "You can run, but you can't hide."
AA/NA may be many things, but it's a real stretch to consider them secular. However, I guess it IS too much to ask, eh?
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