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