AA is Negativity Based

Alcoholics Anonymous teaches people to see the glass half-empty, and then get ready for the world to drink the rest of it away.

Once there is no water left in the glass, you have to take your inventory, because the loss causes you a resentment, and it's your fault that they drink the water.

AA is nothing but demands, and the program tells members that they have no supply of themselves. There  is no wisdom, no life imparted to anyone.

So many of the emotional ills which I struggled with begin and end with this cult.

I did not have to live in fear, except that I had no idea that God was watching over me and living in me, just as Christ died for me and now lives in me (Colossians 1: 27)

One of the things that I was taught rested on this premise:

You need to be afraid of making the same mistakes.

You need to remember the wrong things that you did, so that you do not do them again.

No.

My Bible does not speak of fear with any reverence, but rather rejection:

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." (1 John 4: 18)

If we want people to behave better, the answer does not lie in threats and provocation, but in more of God's grace and righteousness revealed to us:

"11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; " (Titus 2:11-12)

It's the grace of God, not His law, which make us obedient and holy people.

Fearing that we will fail, or looking at ourselves in order to keep ourselves in line, creates sin-consciousness, and gives off the folly of self-righteousness in our flesh.

And self-righteousness, I learned, is as literal as trying to make ourselves righteousness. We just cannot do it. We can't. We need life, not just steps for living better.

And the steps are negativity at its worst.