NAaddict167

Yep I agree with you.

Not right to blame you for other’s behaviours.

Doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong from what you posted.

So I replied and then deleted my comment. But considering the parent’s reply I’m going to weigh in here.

I was actively hostile towards religion. In many ways I still am.

I’m still in A.A./N.A. I’m still working the steps. I’ve just got a year clean.

Absolutely nowhere in the big book does it say religion is required. In fact, it makes a purposeful effort to try to say the opposite.

That is literally the whole point of the “we agnostics” chapter.

AA/NA are not about religion. They’re about a spiritual solution to the disease of alcoholism/addiction.

Religion is not necessarily the same as spirituality. Religion is not required.

Addicted to relationships/falling in love.

It’s a thing.

That initial honeymoon period? It’s like it fixes everything. I’m a whole different person.

Then the honeymoon period ends and I get bored and irritated and nasty. I need to find another one to fix me. Because the current relationship is clearly where the problem lies.

Repeat ad infinitum.

That’s my experience of it. Others may have a different experience.

My current sponsor’s higher power was once an imaginary vagina.

It spoke to him and everything.

Try and fit that in the Christianity column.

> A power greater than ourselves

No cosmically, nothing about governance.

Should be loving and tolerant.

At least that’s my experience so far working the steps.

This comment is 100% on point.

(In my experience).

It’s an easy reference for a lot of people to understand what spirituality means.

Remember, many people who come to meetings can lack any formal education, be homeless, completely cut off from the internet/society etc etc etc.

If I were to start talking about chakras, spiritual energy or Soto zen, they’d think I was fucking mental!