Can God miracle you to drink normally?

The point Bill is trying to make is if you hang on to anger, hurt feelings and a negative attitude then you are probably going to implode and fall back on your crutch.
I think another point needs to be made also, this book along with the Big Book were primarily written with the intent that the person reading was naive, new to sobriety. So there for Bill was trying to help someone he perceived was lost as he was. Some were and some were not as lost.
I am comfortable saying that most of the members here that have positive feeling about AA are not still holed up in a room at night reading the BB or 12n12. We got the gist of what Bill and others were trying to say.

*I took it upon myself to fill in around Penny's excerpts. I wanted everyone to see exactly what was written. You will find the excerpts Penny was referring to (down below pg 90 3rd paragraph)
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( pg 88 bottom paragraph, last sentence carried over to pg 89)
This doesn't mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past. It requires an admission and correction of errors now. Our inventory enables us to settle with the past. When this is done, we are really able to leave it behind us. When our inventory is carefully taken, and we have made peace with ourselves the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can be met as they come.
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(pg89 3rd paragraph carried over to pg 90)
Aren't these practices joy-killers as well as time-consumers?
Must A.A.'s spend most of their waking hours
drearily rehashing their sins of omission or commission?
Well, hardly. The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because
a great many of us have never really acquired the
habit of accurate self-appraisal. Once this healthy practice
has become grooved, it will be so interesting and profitable
that the time it takes won't be missed. For these minutes
and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound
to make all the other hours of our day better and happier.
And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday
living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
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(pg 90 2nd paragraph)
Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look
at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its
work.
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(pg 90 3rd paragraph)
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed,
no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with
us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the
wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What
about “justifiable” anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we
entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with selfrighteous
folk? For us of A.A. these are dangerous exceptions.
We have found that justified anger ought to be left to
those better qualified to handle it.
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(pg 90 4th paragraph)
Few people have been more victimized by resentments
than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments
were justified or not. A burst of temper could
spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably
ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating
justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath
was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more
balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.
These emotional “dry benders” often led straight to
the bottle. Other kinds of disturbances— jealousy, envy,
self-pity, or hurt pride— did the same thing.

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Who cares? Whether it would appeal to me is irrelevant to the question of whether Patti is correct when she said AA teaches we are wrong whenever we are hurt.

And for the record, an atheist can be spiritual. Spirituality does not necessarily entail believing in supernatural beings.

In cases where I am hurt, I look to ask myself why I feel that way. I did that long before I ever got into AA. I wish I had realized long before that much of what a person does has nothing to do with me, so why am I hurt?

I thought about that myself. It's a good argument, and standing alone it might be persuasive. However, the clincher is when Wilson elaborates "[i]f somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also." That seems like an unequivocal statement that not only is there something wrong with us, but also that we are wrong.