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March 2010

Overhaul?

Key purpose

In suggesting that atheism or agnosticism are satisfactory in the longer-term, provided one keeps an open mind, the author misses a key purpose of the Big Book. As "We Agnostics" clearly states, the book's "main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself," while in "How it Works," we are reminded "there is One who has all power--that One is God," For this alcoholic, only God can effect enough change within me to stay away from the bottle.

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