No, no I am not trying to imply that AA should acknowledge any religion the Christ or God or Yahweh; the "higher power" covers any "personal God" and that is what they are espousing. I was writing that I didn't see a previous person saying he hated Jesus (or the Christ or God). I also was trying to say that I see AA as having a propensity for cultism because certain
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I really could not find anything in James G.'s post alluding to any hatred of the Christ. However, the program is promulgating no questioning and absolute obedience: "‘The program knows everything, you know nothing.’ " and constant submission to the program or death: "Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he a
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I looked up Gabriel of Sedona and it looks like he came out of main-stream as a Catholic Charismatic, becoming a counselor for youth, prisons and at half-way houses. His web site, however, is very new age: He is credited as having brought through the continuation of The URANTIA Book, called Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation, in which The URANTIA Book is the first one-tenth. However, it is
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

One of the earlier threads, an author brought up the secular anti-cult revolt. I did some researching and I found that the passage quoted was taken from "The Urantia Book", a book for humans supposedly channeled from aliens! When I had first became aware of this subject, I thought that there were normal people who seriously believe secularism is a threat, but now I see that it'
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Has anyone checked out the website: http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=advocacy This topic is pretty interesting, seems there is some political activism against the Bush administration's faith-based initiative. I was pretty surprised to learn about the "Inner Change Freedom Initiative" - I gather that in our prisons inmates are being coerced into lay intervention progr
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