Originally Posted by mattz

It's just that A LOT of people won't even try the "12 step program" because they think that it requires someone to become all religious because of the "higher power" and "god as we understood him"

Really though, the 12 steps have no relation to god what so ever, I don't believe in god but I have still done the 12 steps before.

A higher power doesn't mean God. For some people yes, God is their higher power, but if you know anything about the 12 steps, your higher power is anything you want it to be really.

For example, my higher power is nature, all the trees, sky, sun stuff like that.

From my expieriece, most people that attend the 12 step meetings, don't have God as their higher power