Welcome to An Atheist Reads the Big Book of AA Episode 24! In this episode I cover the 5th Step of the traditional steps: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.  While myself, and may like me, may choose to omit the notion of god from this step, I feel it is a powerful process to share what came from the 4th step with another human.  More importantly is the process of being honest with ourselves as objectively as possible. Tradition 5: Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. Many have used this step as a reason to bar people from sharing about drugs in meetings and I think it's missing the point to do so.  This tradition has kept money seeking and other forms of corruptible behavior out of the groups.  

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