Links

Join

Forums

Find Help

Recovery Readings

Spiritual Meditations

Chat

Contact


Go Back   Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums > Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery > Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery > A.A. History With Dick B.

Share This Forum!  
 
        

A.A. History With Dick B. Dick B. is an active, recovered member of Alcoholics Anonymous; a retired attorney; and a Bible student. He has sponsored more than one hundred men in their recovery from alcoholism. Consistent with A.A.'s traditions of anonymity, he uses the pseudonym "Dick B." Please feel free to read and share in this forum.

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 12-03-2013, 02:12 PM   #1
dickb
Super Moderator
 

Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 138
Angry The Atheist or the A.A.: Who Holds the Recovery Key

Dick B.:


For those in recovery concerned about the you-can-do-it-by-yourself wave, this will be short.


We know that in 1939, Bill Wilson and three others--one a secretary, one a salesman, one the son of a Christian minister, and Bill--took it on themselves to appease atheists and agnostics by removing God from the Twelve Steps and soon including all the weird concepts of spirituality, nonsense gods, higher powers that are rocks or light bulbs, and not-god-ness. See Bill W.'s own explanation of his reluctant surrender to the little group our four. Alcoholics Anonymous Coms of Age, pages 166 and 167.


It has taken decades for the unbelievers to step up and begin dismantling God, prayer, the Bible, and Christianity from the real A.A. history scene.


A telling new website has this to say:


"There is an increasing number of groups within AA that are not religious in their thinking or practice. These groups don’t recite prayers at the beginning or ending of their meetings nor do they suggest that a belief in God is required to get sober or to maintain sobriety. If the readings at their meetings include AA’s suggested program of recovery, then a secular or humanist version of the 12 Steps is shared."


Pages and pages of revised, distorted, unrepresentative history promote the theme.
dickb is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
Post New ThreadReply  

Bookmarks

Tags
atheists and recovery


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
He Holds the Keys bluidkiti Daily Spiritual Meditations 1 11-23-2013 07:21 PM


Click here to make a Donation

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:08 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.