It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. (AA, pg 66)
I am revisiting this passage from the AA cult handbook once again.
For the past few days, I have been recalling someone close to me who ultimately took her life.
This program works if you work it, claim the AA adherents.
Yet no one can work this "simple program", because it is a falsehood full of distortions and inconsistencies, all based on making people dependent on a support group of like-minded dependents who do not like themselves.
A program which claims that self is our biggest problem teaches people to keep looking at themselves, including their thoughts and feelings, and try to improve themselves.
This AA cult is a perversion of the truth, a unredeemable, unredeeming program of man-centered folly.
The biggest indictment today which I have against AA: this program teaches people that if they feel angry, they got cut off from God.
That is evil, and it is wrong.
This falsehood teaches people to avoid conflict, to run from anger, and to avoid being angry.
In fact, there is a passage in the earlier part of the book which teaches new prospects to be free from anger.
For years, I have struggled with my feelings. I was running away from being angry all the time. I also was taught that I had no power over other people, and that I was destined to live a life of reacting to other people's behavior, whether blessing or curse, beneficial or abusive.
The last words I heard from that close person was lamentation: "I have let everyone get away with abusing me!"
Where did this come from? Why did she believe this?
The AA cult teaches people that they are powerless, that there is nothing they can do about abusive people, that everyone of us is destined to submit to hurtful people and be easily hurt, no matter what we do.
Worst of all, our standing before God, and His peace in our lives, is based on how we feel. If we feel bad, if we get angry, then He leaves us.
That is garbage!
There is nothing wrong with getting angry:
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:" (Ephesians 4: 26)
Anger and wrath are two different words. There are times when we should get angry. There is nothing wrong with expecting people to behave themselves, and there is also nothing wrong with getting angry when people are not behaving themselves in a right spirit.
For many of us, though, who were reared in this poisonous cult, we believed that if we got angry, we had to struggle our way out of it in order to get right with God again.
What!?
Yes. Exactly that.
It's time for us to put away the traditions of men, and stop believing the lies of broken Pharisees looking to force a yoke a bondage on the sons of God, who have received a new spirit.
"3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1: 3-6)
We have already been blessed. We have already been accepted in Christ Jesus, the Beloved Son of God.
What are we worried about?
If we get angry, let us rest in the truth that the blood of Jesus cleanses (present tense) us from all sins (1 John 1:7).
God is not dependent or contingent on our moods, people!
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