AA is a bunch of hocus pocus - a placebo if you will.

I spent a large amount of my life drinking and have gone to several meetings, but they do not offer any foolproof method that isn't available outside of AA to become sober. That's the truth.

The spiritual aspect of AA boils down to believing that a higher power will take control of your addiction and somehow keep you from taking another drink, which doesn't mean anything, is not scientifically proven to be successful either because it is based on belief, yet alcohol has a physical addictive component as well as psychological that God or whatever your higher power is, does not take away.

That is the fallacy of AA. They expound that if you "believe" God will take away your addiction, which is false.

If it were that easy, many a drunk with a hangover would ask God to make them sober and they would never have another physical craving again, but any alcoholic knows this is not true. You still have them.

So God is not at work here like the rest of the worlds problems taking them away just for the belief or the asking. What we are left with is a superficial belief system, called spirituality within AA, that does not actually accomplish anything other than making people believe AA works by reinforcing this belief using only the people who actually became sober through pot-luck.

This would be like saying, "the reason you are dying from that snake bite, in spite of the bible saying poison would not harm you, is because you lack faith."

Pullleeeeeeeeeeeze.

Any idiot can claim the way to sobriety is by not drinking inbetween meetings, but that does nothing to address the physical causes that make an alcoholic pick up the glass in the first place.