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March 1962

My Empathetic God

. . .and the Word was God" proved a stumbling block for this "scientifically oriented rationalist

THE terms "God" and "Power Greater Than Ourselves" irked and bewildered me when I came to AA. Yet I quickly got sober and have increasingly enjoyed sobriety ever since. I believe now that, although rejecting the words, I was accepting and acting on the conception almost from the start. If you are a scientifically oriented rationalist (pronounced "intellectual snob") like me, you may be interested in how a resolution of this apparent paradox came about.

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