If I seem fanatical to some of you it's because I'm so passionate about the program--I'm trying to save it from the seeds of destruction...
A time bomb was planted in AA in the '80s and early 90's when too many rehab people and court slippers of questionable commitment to sobriety flooded our church basements. Outside ideas infiltrated.
If you're overweight and in ill health, you start eating right and go on a diet. You don't keep buying bigger and bigger pairs of "relaxed-fit" jeans.
But this has become a relaxed-fit program over the years.
To save AA, shrink the membership, start reading the BB again.