Re: alternatives to OA

In a message it was written:

<< As I read your mail, my interest was piqued by your reference to
alternatives to OA. I was wondering where you are coming from on this. I
have always felt somewhat uncomfortable about some aspects of OA (all the
great spirit stuff), but I have never considered that there might be an
alternative, or even a need for one; i.e., just take OA or leave it. I would
be quite interested to hear your thoughts.
>>

I am not familiar with there being that much, if any, "great spirit stuff"
in the OA -- that is assuredly not a message.

On the other hand, if we can get used to the thought that God, Jehovah,
Yahweh, and Allah are all names for one concept, might I suggest that the
phrase Great Spirit is merely one more?

The idea of Reverance is not married to one language's version of the
correct name for the concept of a Supreme Being -- I would hope we can have
left such thinking behind about the end of the Crusades.

Merely my two wampum beads.

Ted

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