AA Destroying The Social Lives Of Thousands Of Once-Fun Americans
Rightardia believes that alcoholism is a serious medical condition. We do not support AA because it 12 steps are based upon religious beliefs and such a process is inappropriate for non-believers.
We are aware of a young Navy enlisted man who was discharged because he refused to attend AA meetings because its program conflicted with his beliefs.
These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, 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 take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
In some cases, where other twelve-step groups have altered the AA principles to remove gender-biased or specific religious language.
It is out opinion that alcoholism is neither caused by supernatural forces nor can it be removed by them.George W. Bush would probably argue otherwise.
source: Wikipedia
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