Chapter: We Agnostics

From Alcoholics Anonymous — 1955 Second Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
Chapter Four addresses the agnostic and atheist alcoholic, arguing that lack of power is our dilemma and the solution is finding a Power greater than oneself. It invites the skeptic to set aside religious prejudice and adopt a willingness to seek their own conception of God.
Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 44-57

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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 44
If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic
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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 45
Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves
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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 46-47
When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God
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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 47

Only requirement: willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves

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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 52

List of life problems caused by self-will and being out of contact with God

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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 55
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up... deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God
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Big Book, We Agnostics, p. 57

Story of the minister's son and his transformation

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