(April 25, 2017 at 8:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The real help comes from community support. No higher power needed. I went to one of these programs once. Honestly sometimes I feel like I should go back, to settle some repressed anger issues. But I don't like how they want to stick a "higher power" in where it isn't needed. Then again, that's what people do all the time. Take their cultural higher power, and stick it wherever they can force it to fit.
If you have a circle of friends and family to support you through your problem, you can find freedom from just about anything. It would certainly help more than praying alone to your higher power.
Yep.
There are secular 12 step programs, where the "higher power" is specifically defined as the group.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
