AA Creates Powerless People

AA teaches people to be victims, when the very thing that people want is no longer to be a victim.

The argument that we are powerless, that we need power from Someone or Something else does not hold enough promise for us.

We need more than power, we need everything!

We need life, and that more abundantly.

The argument of AA, though, founds and founders on the lie that people are alcoholic, that they are defined and confined by this drinking problem.

Any psychologist can inform that when a person is labeled a certain way, that label carries dangerous certainties of leading the person to act that way.

I think this outcome describes why people struggle even when they seek, counseling, and perhaps even more so.

A program which tells people that they are powerless ends up making people powerless.

The more that I think about the line of reasoning dominant in AA (if one can call it reasoning!), the  more I realize how dysfunctional and abusive it becomes to lead people to see themselves as without power.

We need more than power, we need life, we need something to fill up the emptiness and the eternal expectations which all too often remain unfulfilled in our lives.

Any set of rules which defines our life and death will lead us to death.

Any set of rules which we use as a means of maintaining a spiritual program will quicky wear us down.

We are powerless, and even if we find ourselves working those steps with proper power and scope, we then face people, places, and things which seem more powerful to us than God Himself.

Why? Because our conception of God has been marred by our own thinking, our own understanding, and thus God is limited, and thus not really God at all.

No wonder people in AA remain so sick and powerless, those who choose to remain, that is.