The Twelve Steps Creates Fault-Finding Pharisees

Religion makes people mean.

The word origin of "religion" is "bind again."

Jesus Christ did not come to bring men into bondage, but to set them free from sin, death, and the grave.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)

and

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

Alcoholics Anonymous is a religion of self-centered self-loathing, a program of inaction which teachers members to keep taking their inventory, looking at themselves -- their thoughts, feelings, and actions -- while telling them to keep attending meetings.

People who "take their inventory" find that they are never at peace, and so they expect other people to take their inventories, as well. It makes sense once you look at it from the outside in.

How many people have I encountered in various AA meetings, and they were simply unhappy people. The ones who take the program "more seriously" end up finger-pointing at people and judging people more than those who have just started in the program, and certainly moreso than those who finally leave the program altogether.

The Twelve Steps ends up creating fault-finding Pharisees because people who really work the program are trained to look for faults in themselves all the time.