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Sexy Drunk Christians

Because You Might Just Find Yourself Angry, Lonely, Tired, & Worse Yet, Crazier Than You’ve Ever Been

Sexy Drunk Christians: Chapter 2 The Depravity of Twelve Step Christianity Part 13

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Loathing adages lacking critical thought sometimes dissipates in agreement with their wisdom, such as the cure being worse than the disease. The hackneyed saying becomes a profound irony upon learning AA cures nothing. Every day, people attend AA believing they treat alcoholism and instead receive a booze-centered, brandless Christian catechism. No matter how passionately AAs swear they are a spiritual program, their practices and literature clearly show they are just another Christian sect, arguably a cult: meaningless terms serving to confuse more than clarify. Regardless, AA is Christian cult or sect, albeit one of the strangest derivations, denoted by many shared behaviors and attitudes.

AA most strikingly likens to Christianity in the self-righteousness trait. In Rebecca Fransway’s 12-step Horror Stories, a social worker describes AA members' attitudes regarding the comparison of alcoholics with substance abusers,

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