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For someone to commit that much time to a negative assault on the program of AA epitomizes self will run riot.
I don't consider this to be an "assault on the program of AA".
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Weather one considers it a religion, a spiritual fellowship or a self help group, persecution of it's members by referring to us as "predators" or "indoctrinated cult members" is persecution:
When did anyone on this thread ever accuse[b:fe4a49ee01] you,[/b:fe4a49ee01] "colter", of being a predator?
When did anyone here say that [b:fe4a49ee01]all AA members[/b:fe4a49ee01] are predators?
If anyone did say that, it [b:fe4a49ee01]would[/b:fe4a49ee01] be persecution. But no one here has said that all 12 steppers are predators.
Are you?
Truthfully, "colter", the reason I have been so tenacious in defending my opinions is because you have been so intent on invalidating them.
If you stop accusing us of "misrepresentation" and "not working our steps", we might not have such a strong incentive to defend ourselves.
That was always my biggest objection to AA dogma; being told we hadn't "worked our steps" whenever we questioned the program or the behavior of its members.
Also, just look at all the anti-AA information I found out about because of your posts.
I was completely unaware of the secular revolt and SOS, and probably would never have gone back and found those damaging references to "the memo" and Audrey Kishline's "relapse" if it wasn't for you.
Maybe that's why AA says claims to have no opinion about outside issues.