Originally Posted by
onlythetruth 
There is a difference between the principles of a group being secular, and the spiritual beliefs of its members. Trimpey, for example, is quite religious, isn't he? Yet RR does not require belief in a higher power.
One of the things I found interesting about the
Journal of Rational Recovery is that you would literally have articles by fundamentalist Christians alongside those of staunch atheists. Part of the American addiction quagmire is that finding spirituality/religion has been placed as
an obstacle to recovery, suggesting that if you don't get spirituality, you won't get recovery, either. I think, though, that as long as this is not the case, that there is no need to react in the opposite direction and rule religion out. Historically, addiction has been the purview of religion, after all, and addicted people's perceptions of addiction will be shaped by this fact.