this has been suggested to me by other members more than once, at the first time I thought I don’t need to comment on it, but somehow I am triggered to respond to it now. so bear with me.
as an atheist ( which is on the far right compared with agnostic which is in the middle between the two sides).
I have attended GA once online (there is no GA where I am living) and right from the start a lot of red flags were raised in my mind,
it looks like a cult for me, taking a book as the ultimate reference, a book written in the 50s for AA, and then tweaked to fit Gambling, and the core message on it is surrendering to a higher power and asking it to give us the strength to overcome this addiction. this all sounds wrong to me. and tweaked it more to fit the atheist by just changing the understanding of the higher power really doesn’t help.
these are a lot of changes to the narrative of that book. if GA or AA fits with your beliefs and works for you then good. we owe ourselves to do whatever that we can do to overcome this addiction.
for me, I found SMART a better choice but the problem with SMART is the general nature of it, it is designed for all types of addictions, so sitting in a SMART meeting hearing from people with drugs or alcohol addiction sometimes I really can’t relate, but their methodology is a science-based approach that keeps changing and not fixed to old books.
so finally no need to tweak the message more, keep it in its original format if an atheist finds help in GA meeting it will be from listening to the other’s experiences and learning from them, and getting support from them. it will have nothing to do with adding a higher power or changing the understanding of what a higher power means.