Addiction in America

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

The term "God" can be anything but yourself: The jar of honey in the cupboard, the Matterhorn, the granite peaks of Kings canyon, the man with the great white beard, Lounge of Tomorrow as a collective group. It's not the god of religion - although to some it is. Religion is NOT a requirement. The 12 steps are not a requirement - but they are suggested as a way to stay sober.

So when you pray to the Matterhorn, what greater understanding of its will are you hoping for? How do you expect the Matterhorn to return your sanity? How is the Matterhorn going to remove my shortcomings?

Are you of the view that if a public school teacher said "I want every student in this room to pray to a god, any god you want because I think this will help you do better on tests; if you really find that objectionable I suppose you don't have to but I find it really helps" that this would be ok with you?

This power was certainly intended to be God when the whole movement started and redefining the word to meaningless is just the same stunt (as I mentioned above) the Creationists pulled on evolution.

It is like you saying that Jehovah's Witnesses do not have religious beliefs because they don't believe in the trinity. If that is what you believe then I can't argue you out of it and you can go on believing that there is no religion going on in Kingdom Halls. But I'm going to object strongly if told that I have to sit in there through a month's meetings if I want to avoid jail.