Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,966
Before AA, alcoholism was seen as a moral failing. That the habitual drunk was seen as a person of weak character because of the lack of willpower or moral strength.
IMO, AA is a faith based program where the 12 steps move a person towards a spiritual solution. The alcoholic is seen as someone that has an illness and not a moral failing. I see the moral component of AA more directed at loosing overt self-interest so they may become more receptive to their HP's direction and to help other alcoholics.