Oh, there's one other thing I wanted to add about "religion" in AA, because in my personal opinion, and in the opinion of many others who have done AA, there is no "religion" in the AA program, its about faith. There's a big difference between "religion" (like Christianity) and "faith".
There's a saying in AA that sums this up pretty well. Alot of people have trouble wrapping their head around the whole higher power thing, but these people don't realize that its not required that you go and join a new religion or some shit, it just takes faith. The saying goes, 'Religion is for people who are afraid of hell. Faith is for people who have been there". That statement pretty much sums it up for me.
Anyway, I'll stop my AA preaching now, I know that nobody really wants to hear it. I just think that people who dismiss the 12 step program as being anything other than an extremely helpful and potentially successful tool for drug addicts/alcoholics are probably ignorant of what it really is. I'm not saying EVERYONE is that way, just most of them.
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