A woman convicted over her part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said she rejected Trump's pardon because it would be a "slap in the face to Capitol police officers."
Sure sounds like it is losing its original purpose to me- to bring people closer to the Christian god, since the 12 steps were formed from a Christian prayer group.
I’m looking at it as an atheist and it absolutely looks like a human trying to communicate to a god to me. I have no idea how to interpret “improve our conscious contact with God” any other way.
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Yes, as I have said to others, I understand that if you totally rewrite Step 11 it can reply to atheists.
But to an atheist, the lines are in no way hazy between prayer and meditation.
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Yes, yet again, I understand that if you rewrite things, they change.
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Sure sounds like it is losing its original purpose to me- to bring people closer to the Christian god, since the 12 steps were formed from a Christian prayer group.
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I’m looking at it as an atheist and it absolutely looks like a human trying to communicate to a god to me. I have no idea how to interpret “improve our conscious contact with God” any other way.
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