Indeed, I was inspired by the interest in the secular 12 steps to write a book on the topic. The Alternative 12 Steps (there are six different versions on the website these days) is the most popular menu item for people visiting AA Agnostica: roughly 150,000 viewers over the past decade, and that’s forty or so each and every day. In the early months of the website, there was plenty of pressure to remove a secular version of the 12 Steps that I had added to the menu. After a legal challenge that lasted roughly six years, we were allowed back in in early 2017. With a “God” – or a “Him” (this deity is both Christian and male) – in six of the 12 steps, a secular version of these steps was not allowed by the GTAI. In the conference-approved Big Book, published a million years ago, God is an essential part of recovery. Traditional AA can be rather dogmatic, and in Toronto it certainly was way back then. The groups were expelled from the GTAI for one simple reason: we used a secular version of the 12 Steps. It was initially called AA Toronto Agnostics and it was created simply to let people know about the times and locations of two agnostic meetings, Beyond Belief and We Agnostics, after the groups had been booted out of the Greater Toronto Area Intergroup (GTAI).Īt the time these were the only two secular AA groups in all of Canada. The website was created by me and another person on June 15, 2011.
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