Resources for Secular Alcoholics Anonymous members

[James D]

Right now I'm trying to put together a good list of resources for Secular, Agnostic, Atheist, Freethinker and even Deist Alcoholics Anonymous members.
I will list all the sites I know of and am looking for help finding more. If you know of any I've missed, please post it in this thread and hopefully I can eventually make some kind of sticky FAQ for starting meetings and a fuller resource list.

General Agnostic, Atheist, Secular, and Freethinker AA info:

The Atheist AA
sites.google.com/site/theatheistaa/

List of Atheist & Agnostic meetings
www.agnosticaanyc.org/worldwide.html

NYC Agnostic AA:
www.agnosticaanyc.org/
Has a lot of great general Information.

AA Toronto Agnostics:
aatorontoagnostics.org/
The Blog there has some great articles.

We Agnostics:
weagnostics.com/

Great article on an Atheist in AA:
religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/28/my-take-an-atheist-at-aa/

Sober Atheist Blog:
www.soberatheist.com/

Social Sites:

Facebook Agnostics & Atheists in AA:
www.facebook.com/pages/Agnostics-and-Atheists-in-AA/168374259840358

Atheist AA Google group:
groups.google.com/group/atheist-aa
Great message board

Sober Recovery Forums
www.soberrecovery.com/forums/secular-12-step-recovery/

Nexus Atheist 12 step & alternative forums
www.atheistnexus.org/group/atheistsin12steprecovery/forum

Meetings with websites:

San Francisco Bay Area Agnostics site:
www.aaagnostics.org/

Indy We Agnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana)
www.indyweagnostics.com/

Misc Websites:

Top 100 sober sites
sober.gotop100.com/in.php?ref=435

[jon s]

Is a secular meeting, an AA meeting? If there is changing 6 of the 12 steps, is it NOT AA any more? Here’s their version (with changes in *):



1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.







*2 Came to accept and to understand that we needed strengths beyond our awareness and resources to restore us to sanity.







*3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the AA program.







4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.







*5 Admitted to ourselves without reservation, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.







*6 Were ready to accept help in letting go of all our defects of character.







*7 Humbly sought to have our shortcomings removed.







8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.







9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.







10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.







*11 Sought through mindful inquiry and meditation to improve our spiritual awareness, seeking only for knowledge of our rightful path in life and the power to carry that out.







12 Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.