Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

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You can’t start with faith; you can only start with belief.

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Big Book p. 51, par. 1

“This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the millenniums which went before. Almost everyone knows the reason. Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today. Yet in ancient times, material progress was painfully slow. The spirit of modern scientific inquiry, research and invention was almost unknown. In the realm of the material, men’s minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sort of fixed ideas.”

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Why do we have technologies such as smartphones, automobiles, and airplanes today that we didn’t have 200 years ago? Are we just smarter than our ancestors? No. They had the same capacity to learn that we do today. However, the things keeping them in the so-called “dark ages” were:

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superstition, tradition and all sorts of fixed ideas.

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That’s why we need an open mind more today than ever. Centuries ago, the U.S. was founded on the idea of religious freedom. The pilgrims wanted to practice religion as they saw as they understood it. And as long as you agreed basically with their religion and you practiced your religion somewhat like they did you were OK. But, if you had any thoughts or ideas that were different and you expressed them, you would be burned at the stake as a witch. Because of this persecution, you would keep alternative ideas to yourself. Religion is exclusive.

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Superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas

kept people from growing.

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And I think we as a country are putting up more walls than ever instead of tearing them down. Remember, change starts with ONE.

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Let’s take a look at the solution…

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In the chapter We Agnostics we found out where ‘God’ (our Unsuspected Inner Resource) was…

Big Book p. 55, par. 2-3

“Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.”

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We can fix us with a Power that we already have!

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