Good job, doknob.
Hey, that rhymes.
I gave up AA too. I couldn't understand how it couldn't be religious. Drug court took it over in my town. Meetings with active drug court dopers made me want to use. I haven't been back to a meeting in over a year and I'm doing well. I never made any announcement though. I just left. My sponsor is a great guy and he really saved my life. He's a bigtime AA guy and he helps lots of people. I haven't told him that I don't get the AA way. Then again, he hasn't come around to see me either. Another screwy AA thing -- not checking on the "sponsee". I lost a brother over the summer and nobody from the non-drug-court AA group even gave me a phone call.
Selfish program I guess.