"AA IS religious"
Thanks for a good laugh, that's twice in 2 days i have laughed out loud:-)
I would love to see this explained to a religious person, how AA is in fact religious and all our beliefs are very much the same as that religion. You can explain to them how drinking is not a sin, how there is no hell etc. Then please on go to tell them that the God they believe in with such deep belief is actually a God of their understanding and yours is a God of your understanding putting their God and your God on the same footing as it's ok to believe in a God of your choosing as opposed to the one that comes from whatever book that religion follows.
Then after that conversation you can be thankful you live in a bubble in a western country and not in somewhere like the Middle East where you would be at least seriously berated, maybe imprisoned for inferring that AA is religious and making any form of comparison to their religion.