AA helped me a lot in early recovery and it will again I'm sure. There are some aspects (and some members and meetings) I don't care for so I don't attend those. I have several others I do like and get a lot out of, so those are the ones I go to. And at the end, during the lord's prayer, I say nothing and no one says anything to me about it. AA IS a spiritual group with a lot of religious members, in my opinion. But I still like and depend on parts of it.
There are many other recovery programs out there, and many of us have stayed sober without any 'program' at all.