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I don't know Alex, I've encountered enough atheists in AA to know they figured it out for themselves how to work the program. In my recollections the one's that argued the most about the "God" factor usually seemed to use that as an excuse to keep drinking.

One person declared that "alcohol" itself was his higher power because obviously he had no power over it. Perhaps that doesn't make sense as a logical argument to the exact literal meaning text of the steps - but it worked for him.

Perhaps all that is important about the god thing is acknowledging that some things are unknowable, and that you are powerless over certain things? That seems to be the crux of the serenity prayer anyway.