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Chapter 1 of "A.A.- How Alcoholics Anonymous Steals Your Soul"
Step1 The Bait-And-Switch Begins (excerpt)
Step 2 The Savage Atheist and Deadly Sin (excerpt)
Step 3 Genetic Memory Of God (excerpt)
Step 4 The Seven Deadly Sins
Step 5 AA, The Arbiter of God’s Word
Step 6 We’re Men, You’re All Boys
Step 7 Take My Sin- Please (my apologies to the Great Mr. Youngman)
Step 10 Lots of Sin, Lots of Praying
Step 11 AA and the God of The Atom
Step 12 Born Again, Whether You Want It Or Not
Chapter 3 The Real Alcoholics Anonymous
Chapter 4 A Self Defense Primer
Chapter 5 The Danger of A.A.
Chapter 6 My Story of Self-Cure
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CHAPTER 1
Alcoholics Anonymous IS A Religion
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a religious organization that tricks its members into becoming religious zealots who dedicate their lives to faith-healing, rooting out sin and being Born Again. This book details that indoctrination using AAs own words.
My name is Robert Warner, and some years back I was ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). I was told by everyone that AA was a non-religious program to cure alcoholism and that alcoholism is a medically recognized ‘disease’, just the same as cancer or diabetes. This episode taught me a valuable lesson; that just because everyone tells you something, that doesn’t make it true. Sometimes they lie.
I successfully sued the Orange County (New York) Department Of Probation to have mandatory attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous ruled an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, eventually proving that AA is an intensely religious program. I eventually won and mandatory AA was ruled illegal because of its religious nature but, because the US Supreme Court refused to hear the defendants appeal, the jurisdiction of the decision was limited to that of the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. As a result, I continue to read of people in our country being forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, a deeply religious faith-healing sect of Christianity. AA has been able to position itself as this state-mandated religion by promoting itself with a cynical, dishonest semantic deception; they classify themselves as “spiritual, not religious”. The point of this book is to deconstruct the Alcoholics Anonymous program to show how AA camouflages their religion as medicine, and the semantic trickery it employs to that end. The deconstruction is necessary because Alcoholics Anonymous is incredibly bold when they lie; when AA tells you to pray to God, and seek knowledge of His will and the strength to carry it out, they say that that isn’t religious and that God can mean anything that you want it to mean (God “as we understand Him”). A careful deconstruction will counter that nonsense when it shows that the goal of the AA program is for you to love God and “call Him by name” once you become “better able to understand Him”.
I am writing this book because Alcoholics Anonymous plays people for fools, and I want to provide the best possible weapon to protect people from AA’s fraud; knowledge. While many religions go to great lengths to convert people to their religion, even resorting to violence, murder, terrorism and war, AA is the only religion that actually hides their religious nature to lure people into their rituals while they convert them. This tactic has enabled them to insidiously weave themselves into the social, political and legal workings of our nation. By hiding the program’s religious nature they have positioned themselves to have people ordered into their religion by the courts and psychiatric profession, with those people being under threat to their freedom and fortune. I was one of those forced into their churches and I successfully sued in Federal Court, eventually winning a judgment that declared no one can be forced to attend AA. The outrageous part of that battle, and the heart of the incredible dishonesty of Alcoholics Anonymous, is that I had to argue for a decade that praying to God is religious. The losing defendants adopted AA’s obscene lie that praying to God is not religious. AA tells this to the member in order to buy them time to convert the prospect.
AA employs a graduated indoctrination. Having successfully convinced our courts as well as the medical and psychiatric profession to accept their religion as a treatment for alcoholism, they are able to get masses of people to attend their services either voluntarily or by force. This provides AA churches with a pre-packaged, captive audience that has no choice but to join in AA rituals. They are often given the choice of either joining the religion of Alcoholics Anonymous or being confined to a locked facility indefinitely. This is not rehabilitation; it is forced religious re-education.
Once a person is in the door for their first AA meeting, the membership prospect embarks upon a journey characterized by lies, deceit and fraud. A cornerstone of the fraud of Alcoholics Anonymous is perhaps the most cynical literary manipulation of modern times; “AA isn’t religious, it’s spiritual”. The confusion caused by such a statement, which attains credence in the targeted person’s mind because of the endorsement by the State, and medical professionals, is something that AA relies on. They explicitly direct their members to hide the religious nature of Alcoholics Anonymous in order to keep the prospect coming back, giving them detailed instructions on how to do so. We have lent the power, prestige and force of our nation’s institutions to Alcoholics Anonymous to perpetrate this fraud. If a person is compelled to go, by either the courts or a treatment professional in the substance abuse industry, the force and impact of the lies and trickery are compounded by the legitimacy of these institutions. In order to gain that endorsement AA had to sidestep the separation of church and state, as well as patient right policies protecting freedom of religion. They achieve this by calling themselves “spiritual, not religious”; that, however, is a semantic word game and a fraud.
Not only is AA a religious organization, they have a very distinct religious doctrine; faith-healing. They want to indoctrinate unwitting (and often unwilling) people into their religion, so they jump through incredible linguistic hoops to hide their faith-healing doctrine from prospective members. That’s the impetus to Alcoholics Anonymous calling its God a “Higher Power; to convince targets that AA is not religious while simultaneously converting them to faith-healing.
One main tactic that AA employs is to tell prospects that anything can be their Higher Power- a chair, a table or the group itself. They dedicate many pages to this obfuscation but at the end of the program they reveal what they truly mean by “Higher Power”; that you will learn to “love God and call Him by name”. While they tell new prospects that no religious belief is required, in truth theirs is a deeply religious program that believes only in faith-healing. They declare that no human power can relieve alcoholism and that God could and would if He were sought. AA claims non-religiosity; in reality, Alcoholics Anonymous is a fundamentalist, faith-healing religion.
Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization of religious zealots who believe that their religion is the only truth and that if it doesn’t cure you, that’s your fault- the program never fails. If you have a “relapse” it’s because you didn’t work the Steps properly. This “can’t fail” arrogance is ensconced in an incantation that is chanted at most meetings; “It works if you work it!” To Alcoholics Anonymous, their program is completely fail-proof and anytime that their program doesn’t work it is because the person that it failed is “constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves”.
AA believes itself perfect because they have a direct line to God. They don’t just teach that theirs is a good religion, but that God does their bidding; God can and will relieve your alcoholism if you follow AA religious teachings. AA is the only religion I know of that believes that it knows the mind of God, and that God will obey them. There is no concept of “