Sometimes it is very difficult for people who have places like AA to get to, to understand why some people cannot.
Sometimes it is very difficult for people who are satisfied with places like AA to understand that for some people the very thought of taking the L-rds name in vain as a "higher power" is just plain wrong.
There IS no "higher power" than HaShem. And for AA to even think there is, is, to me, an obscenity.