12 steps

The Twelve Steps to Heathendom

1. WE....... admitted we were powerless within our faith - that our minds had become controlled.

2. Realized that belief in a Power Greater than ourselves had taken away our sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives back over to ourselves, as we came to understand ourselves.

4.  Made a searching and fearless moral and intellectual inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to ourselves and another human being the exact nature not only of our wrongs, but also of our strengths.

6. Were entirely ready to remove all these defects of character ourselves.

7. Humbly took full responsibility for our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, preached at, persecuted, or shunned; and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to make scientific inquiry and when we were wrong promptly admitted.

11. Sought through reading, learning, and reflection to improve our conscious contact with the world around us, as we have come to understand it, asking only for knowledge and the will and power to apply it.

12. Having had an intellectual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to religionists/ people of faith, and to practice logic and reason in all our affairs.