"Bill Alsobrook" <balsobrook@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qCcte.73448$PR6.1910@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> Yeah Pookie,
> I attended one every week in a church basement, and just like every other
> meeting I have been in, there is allot of F'ing this and other nice little
> words that good Christians would not use so close to a house of worship,
> funny though, I though we were Religious to an Extreme according to Ken.
> Hummmm Guess when I started drinking they changed the rules on me and now
> its ok to take the lords name in Vain, lmao. Maybe Ken needs to go back
> and read the difference between what the original 6 steps of the Oxford
> group had as compared to the 12 given to us by Bill W and Dr Bob. I will
> always agree that the Oxford group was a RELIGIOUS GROUP. But I fail to
> find the relationship to AA in that regard.
>
> My name is Bill A, and I am an Alcoholic.

Hi Bill, I'm with you. I have attended meetings that were 12-step meetings,
and they were religious, but they were not AA or NA. There are churches
where people are invited to come and work on their addiction with other
Christians, and although they loosely base themselves on AA, they are not.
They write their own 12 steps and have their own ways of doing things, all
based on God as He is understood by Christians. I've never seen any praying
in AA meetings, or anything resembling a Christian worship service, so I
just don't understand how this whole 'religious' thing came about.
Regardless of what the group was originally, it is not the Oxford Group now,
and it sure ain't a religious group. If it were, there's a whole *lot* of
stuff that wouldn't be happening, not just the cursing!! lol

Pookie
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