The Big Challenge: "AA Helped Me Get Sober!"

The biggest defense for AA relies on the argument that "Alcoholics Anonymous helped me get sober!"

Granted, there is a small percentage of people who go to AA meetings, get sober and stay that way.

A good number of them, however, have to take one or two medications.

The mental problems, the emotional anguish connected with Alcoholics Anonymous is beyond telling.

Someone very close to me was heavily involved in Alcoholics Anonymous, and she was working "the program" until she died, mostly likely from a passive suicide.

Any program which teaches people that they are alcoholic, that they cannot trust their thinking, that they must turn their will and lives to some elusive "higher power", in reality, a projection of God based on one's limited experience, ultimately replaced by the groupthink of AA  members in a specific meeting.

At any rate, the very people who get sober and stay sober, manage that state not because of the meetings, or the Twelve Steps, or any other aspect of Bill Wilson's self-serving cult.

Those individuals likely would have gotten sober, with our without AA.

The empirical studies, the scientific research, all of the erudition on AA cannot confirm that there is anything in this program which leads to sobriety and long life.

Nothing at all.

For those who are sharing the truth about this awful cult, and meet people who charge that the program works, simply remind them that the very low retention rate, combined with diverse studies on the subject, affirm that the few individual who manage to stay sober while staying in AA do so not because of AA.

Period.

The grace of God does so much more than Alcoholics Anonymous ever could provide. Not only does the eternal forgiveness provided by the Cross remove guilt and shame, but the gift of righteousness inspires life, eternal life, and that more abundantly.

More than that, we receive a new status, a new identity. Not broken alcoholics defined by our failures, but sons of the living God defined by Jesus' Finished Work at the Cross.

AA may help a small group of people get sober from alcohol, but the pain and shame, plus the frustration and rancor of AA meetings, will show that sobriety of alcohol is a big fat nothing which grants no peace or joy in AA members.

AA never helped anyone get sober, and actually diminishes the quality of individual lives.