As Bill Sees It for 2/4/2013
 

Suffering Transmuted

"While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very much whether our Buddhist members in Japan would ever have joined this Society had A.A. officially stamped itself a strictly Christian movement.
"You can easily convince yourself of this by imagining that A.A. started among the Buddhists and that they then told you you couldn't join them unless you became a Buddhist, too. If you were a Christian alcoholic under these circumstances, you might well turn your face to the wall and die."


LETTER, 1954

I am trying to keep my head up..

Interesting perspective...AA has cultural influences wherever it is. How different it must be around the world, yet all have the same ending destination of happy destiny through the 12 steps.

AA has it's ideas canvassed and pulled from most if not all the major religions and practices. Read any major text or guiding holy books and you will see many or all of the spiritual principles and steps in them. The idea of a God as we understand Him is revolutionary - a way in for most of us who struggle at the idea of a Higher Power.