HOW HARD WE WORKED TO BLOCK GOD OUT OF OUR LIVES:
ATTITUDES THAT HINDER OUR PROGRESS
(3rd edition Alcoholics Anonymous)
Anti-religious.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 1-3
Rejection of inadequate childhood conception and abandonment of God.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 5-8
The thought that faith was somewhat weak, even cowardly.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 8-11
Warring individuals, warring theological systems, inexplicable calamity.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 11-13
Judgement of individuals claiming to be godly.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 13 & 14
How could a supreme being have anything to do with it all?
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 15 & 16
Incomprehensibility of God.
page 45, paragraph 3, lines 16 & 17
Distraction by others' conception of God.
page 46, paragraph 2, lines 1 & 2
Prejudice against spiritual terms.
page 47, paragraph 1, lines 4-6
Assumption that we must accept many things of faith.
page 47, paragraph 3, lines 7-10
Obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.
page 47, paragraph 4, lines 1-3
Antagonism towards reference to spiritual things.
page 47, paragraph 4, lines 3-5
Our perverse steak.
page 48, paragraph 4, lines 5-11
The vain idea that our intelligence is the beginning and end of all.
page 49, paragraph 1, lines 1-5
Cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices.
page 49, paragraph 2, lines 7-13
Using people's shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.
page 50, paragraph 1, lines 1-3
We talked of intolerance when we were intolerant ourselves.
page 50, paragraph 1, lines 3 & 4
We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.
page 50, paragraph 1, line 7
We are biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit.
page 51, paragraph 2, lines 1-3
We stick to the idea that self-sufficiency would solve our problems.
page 52, paragraph 4, lines 4-6
We lean too heavily on reason for our support.
page 53, paragraph 3, lines 9-11
We had been abjectly faithful to the God of Reason.
page 53, paragraph 4, lines 6 & 7
We worship people, sentiment, things, money and ourselves page 54, paragraph 1, lines 3 & 4
Obscured by calamity, pomp, by worship of other things.
page 55, paragraph 2, lines 3-5
Rebellion at religion education.
page 56, paragraph 1, lines 1-3
Idea that God has never done anything for us.
page 56, paragraph 2, lines 3-5