text: If you've ever read the chapter to agnostics in the Big Book, you would know that it serves as a puerile attempt to shame and convert non believers. For that matter, if AA is not a religion, why did the Toronto AA governing body try to hide behind "section 18 of the Human Rights Code, which allows a religious group to restrict participation to the faithful?" But then, reason and logic are not particularly useful in the world of AA membership.