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> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists. That's unfortunate, and mostly in line with other experiences I've heard from fr
by craftyguy 7y ago
> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists.
That's unfortunate, and mostly in line with other experiences I've heard from friends, etc. AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitment/retention facility, that sometimes accidentally helps people who buy into it recover from addiction. Too bad.
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- jariel 7y ago"AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitment/retention facility, that sometimes accidentally helps people who buy into it recover from addiction." This is essentially false, and borderline bigotry.
- NAaddict167 7y agoMy current sponsor’s higher power was once an imaginary vagina. It spoke to him and everything. Try and fit that in the Christianity column.
- hoistbypetard 7y ago(not who you were replying to...) > My current sponsor’s higher power was once an imaginary vagina. > It spoke to him and everything. That made me laugh audibly, and next time I need to refer to a higher power in any sort of conversation, I fully plan to work that in. If you ever have the occasion to tell your sponsor that this story inspired such a reaction from a random person on the internet, I hope it amuses him.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoI shouldn't have to make up a higher power and do anything with that imaginary construct to make it through the steps of a sobriety program, though. The fact that I'd have to lie about it in the first place is the issue - it doesn't matter if other people's higher power is something non-christian or not. I cannot just be myself.