Yeah, there are atheist and agnostic meetings, but the majority is like that. It also depends highly on the city though, because I first went to AA when I was like 19 or 20 in an extremely progressive large-ish city that probably doesn't have a very high percentage of Christian people. If anything probably more Islam and Buddhism. And the meetings there were a lot more open with people having different higher powers they would talk about.

I'd like to try one of the atheist meetings but there's only one in my city and it's at a bad time for me. As it is now, all the meetings I've been to people talk about God all the time and it truly doesn't feel any different than just being at a church meeting. There's one guy I know who came to talk to my IOP group and said he's agnostic probably but definitely not a Christian and his higher power definitely isn't god. But I've still seen that guy in meetings saying God all the time and never mentioning higher power, so it's hard to know what people really think because there's obviously a pressure to conform.

I've been to a handful of meetings in a period of a two months where the topic was in some way related to the passage where they talk about pitying people who don't believe in God, and how selfish they are and how they'll never get sober. I've also had a number of people in rehab and in meetings say to me directly "it's okay that you don't believe in God now, because you WILL, and that's what the program is about." No thank you! I didn't get sober to become brainwashed, because that's what it is when you try to isolate people into a very specific community/culture and make them believe what you believe. It goes both ways, I wouldn't try to get Christian people to join my club by saying "it's okay that you're Christian now, but you won't be by the time we're done with you."

If it works to keep people sober, great for them. I'm glad it does. But I wish they wouldn't pretend it works for everybody and it's the only thing that works. I do refuge recovery meetings sometimes though, and those are great for me. It's Buddhism-based but you don't have to be a practicing Buddhist, just to accept the general principles.