Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!mhuxt!techpub
From: techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Alcoholism, Christianity, and Effective Treatment
Message-ID: <440@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 10:37:54 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxt.440
Posted: Fri Dec 28 10:37:54 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 03:06:40 EST
References: <1199@trwrba.UUCP> <726@ames.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 30

> 	Not a flame, just a clarification.
> 	Unless things have changed recently, AA has a strong religious
> (though non-denominational) element in its treatment for alcoholism.
> While I don't doubt that alcoholic athiests would be welcome, some of
> the counciling they'd get would likely seem to them better suited for
> someone more religious.
> 	Anyone have any more detailed/current information on AA?
> 
> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,       Kenn Barry
> Than to have a frontal lobotomy."               NASA-Ames Research Center
>                                                 Moffett Field, CA
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  	USENET:		 {ihnp4,vortex,dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry
> 	SOURCE:	         ST7891


This is AA in a nutshell:

After admitting that you are powerless over alcohol, and
have the desire to stop drinking you must turn you life over to
a power higher than yourself WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO CALL THAT POWER
IS UP TO *YOU*.

It is not necessarily religious, unless of course you choose
to call that power God. They don't *ever* preach
or refer to anything remotely religious. You turn your
life and everything in it over to YOUR higher power.


Anonymous