(March 29, 2014 at 8:30 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Just a quick google search shows that two of the key points are admitting you have no control over your addiction (which isn't true) and the need for a higher power.
No disrespect Chas, but every person I've known who has gone through AA, states that this is the mantra. You could pretend to not hear it as an atheist but then why give it credit?
Admitting you have no control over the addiction and having no control over your actions are two very different things. Believe me, I have seen a lot of addicts. In the throes of addiction, you do not have control over the disease.
And like I've said before, the higher power doesn't have to be a supernatural being. It can be something natural that gives you a sense of awe and peace, and is a bridge for the idea that you cannot do it alone.
The wording of the steps is of no importance next to how they manifest in practice.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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