The Religious Absurdity of Alcoholics Anonymous & Christianity

Sexy Drunk Christians: Chapter 2 The Depravity of Twelve Step Christianity Part 15

To make AA more palatable for the nonreligious, the founders genericized Christianity, which amounted to a bait-and-switch. No one wrote more extensively on this AA practice than Terrance Hodgins, a.k.a. Agent Orange, who ran the anti-AA Orange-Papers website for many years. He described this fraud as,

First they say:

“Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.”

But then they say:

“At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.” The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, Into Action, page 77.

One of those two statements is a lie.

To get you to join, they will tell you that:

“It's spiritual, not religious.”

“It isn't a religion, it's just a fellowship of alcoholics who want to quit drinking.”

Alcoholics Anonymous is not a religious organization.
The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, Foreword, page xx.

“It isn't a religion, it's a self-help group — just a wonderful spiritual quit-drinking program.”

“Alcoholics Anonymous requires no beliefs.”

“Alcoholics Anonymous does not demand that you believe anything. All of its Twelve Steps are but suggestions.”
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, William G. Wilson, page 26.

“You can use anything you wish for your Higher Power — a bedpan, or a doorknob, or a Group Of Drunks.”
Or, in Cocaine Anonymous, “G.O.D.” can be “a Group Of Drug addicts”. And the best ones that I've heard lately are: “God” can be “a cat” or “a parakeet”.

But, later, they will talk endlessly about “moral shortcomings”, confessions, surrender to God, and religion. You will only gradually find out that it is an intensely religious cult based on the strange teachings of a Hitler-admiring renegade fascist Lutheran minister named Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, and the grandiose proclamations of one of his mentally-ill converts, William Griffith Wilson.¹