Originally Posted by
doorknob 
The way I feel about it is this:
AA and the Big Book are overtly disparaging towards people with secular beliefs. To me, that is no different than if it were any other group of people being demeaned and scapegoated in the name of sobriety. I wouldn't join a white supremacist group or an anti-gay movement to facilitate my recovery either...
Well, I'd typed this whole post out and lost it. My stance is that AAers are free to believe as they choose, however, please do not attempt to convince me I've read the book and have not "gotten it", I haven't "seen the light", I haven't given AA enough of a shot. My first AA meeting was 32 years ago. If I ain't "gettin' it" by now maybe it's because it's not for me and many other people. At times certain AAers come across as evangelical and that really bothers me and turns me off even more. I say GRRRR back.