Do you believe in the doctrine and steps of Alcoholics Anonymous? Are you powerless?

1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Theres more but those specifically.

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basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

No. I think it's religious indoctrination and most alcoholics quit without AA. They claim "one drink one drunk", but I've known plenty of recovered alcoholics who became moderate drinkers. Furthermore believing you're powerless doesn't help an addict, it worsens it. When you empower addicts, they do better.

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@basilfawlty89
It's not religious at all..
More spiritual, after attending thousands of meetings i can confidently say that the vast majority of members are not religious at all..
Nor have I ever been to a meeting where religion was made a focus of recovery

basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

@SW-User it was literally borne out of the Oxford Group which had the stated goal of converting people to Christianity. I've known atheist alcoholics who were flat out told by AA they need to accept God in order to be "healed from their affliction".

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All i can do is speak from ten years of involvement in AA and participating in hundreds of different meetings in three states..
Not once have i ever observed even a single instance of religious pressure..
The "god of your understanding " that's how it was always put to the group, in fact it was regularly stated that you didn't need to be religious to get the program and god could be anything that works for you, it could even be the meetings, god could stand for " group of drunks" or " good orderly direction "

There have been those who couldn't get sober in AA and blamed the group for being " religious " wich is bullshit in my experience