To this day, Alcoholics Anonymous has provided no credible evidence which
supports the charge that the program of religion mixed with personal
house-cleaning contributes to the long-term sobriety of its members.
The growing number of disaffected members who have left the program because
of outrageous infighting, disagreements over uses of member donations, and the
dwindling efficacy of a program which does not offer a substantial regimen for
living.
Former members have shared with me the appalling arrogance of members who
have committed crimes, offended and abused friends and family, but still glory
in that they did not drink. Those who struggle with alcohol have what everyone
else has — living problems — yet they have resorted to a source of comfort
which has creates more problems than it eliminates.
A new documentary called "Bill W." upends not only the core tenet
of the program, anonymity, but also skewers the notion that its founder,
Vermont stalwart William Wilson, lived a complete and calm sober life. The
telling lack of naysayers for the program indicates that cult-like hold which
the program has promoted for its members, many of whom fearfully avoid
contemplating a life without attending a meeting once a week with other
alcoholics.
I cannot think of a more damning enterprise than a program which encourages
individuals to define themselves by a condition which resists the label of
"disease". How many countless numbers of people have simply given up
drinking without assistance from twelve steps or sponsor, both of which seem to
keep young men and women from prospering in their lives beyond donating their
limited time and limiting funds to assisting other "alcoholics."
Will W. indicated that the program of Alcoholics Anonymous was meant to be
merely "spiritual kindergarten", when the program runs contrary to many
tenets of Classic, Biblical Christianity, as well as other faiths, while
promoting some of the most defeating elements of religious Pharisaism,
including the notion that a man's time in the program dictates to what extent
an individual may share or participate in his recovery or the recovery of other
people.
The documentary, because it fails to present the dark side of a teetotaler
who was neither totally abstinent nor faithful to the program he created, or to
his family or friends, mitigates all the more against the unjustified range of
a support for the program.
"Bill W." along with his second-in-command "Dr. Bob" are
just sorry attempts at putting a human face on an infamous cult, one that
"works if you work it", but which no one really can work.
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