Answering Another Misinformed Effort to Relate A.A., the beliefs of AAs, and history to Nonsense gods

As is happening all to often today among a handful of anti-A.A. writers and publications, I saw yet another claim that A.A. has nothing to do with Yahweh, God, Creator, Maker, Father, and the "God of the Scriptures" about whom Bill Wilson wrote in describing his white light experience in 1934.

Here is my answer to one such publication:

Thank you for your site which attempts to discuss Alcoholics Anonymous and its relationship to the Bible.

The important fact often unstated and missed in your article is that A.A. did not emerge from ‘higher power,” “power greater than
Ourselves,” and “God as we understood Him.” Those absurd names for God arose in a last-minute decision made primarily by four persons in New York in 1939.

In the spring of 1939 - four years after the founding of A.A. in June of 1935 — a decision made by Bill W., a secretary, a business-man partner of Bill's, and the son of a minister to appease a few atheists and agnostics.

They did not change the heart-felt belief of hundreds of thousands of A.A. adherents who were and are Christians--Christians in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), who were and are dedicated to the role that God, His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Bible played and can play in the recovery scene and in A.A. today.
See International Christian Recovery Coalition site www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com. And do not hesitate

To contact me for the comprehensive, accurate, and truthful historical points.

Co-founder Dr. Bob, who had the greatest success in the early days, stated explicitly that he did not write the A.A. Twelve Steps and had nothing to do with the writing of them. He pointed out that A.A.’s basic
Ideas came from the study and effort in the Bible. He explicitly referred to the Book of James, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13. His wife, Anne Ripley Smith, stated accurately “The main Sourcebook of all is the Bible. Not a day should pass without reading it.”

In their zeal to attack present-day godlessness in the recovery arena, a few Christian writers aimlessly point to everything but the truth about A.A.’s roots, origins, and early Christian Fellowship. See Dick B., The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.’s Roots in the Bible www.dickb.com/goodbook.shtmnl; and The James Club and the Original A.A.
Program’s Absolute Essentials www.dickb.com/JamesClub.shtml.

I hope your publication and the writers about A.A. will start with the facts about A.A.’s explicit references to God, the Creator, Maker, Heavenly Father, God of our fathers, Father of Light, etc. Detours from fact
Are not helpful to your readers or to those who want facts—not conjecture.

God bless,

Dick B.
Author, 42 titles & over 500 articles on A.A. History
Exec. Dir., International Christian Recovery Coalition
Christian Recovery Resource Centers - Worldwide
www.DickB.com
DickB@DickB.com
(808) 874-4876
PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837

Ps 118:17 (NJB):
I shall not die, I shall live to recount the great deeds of Yahweh.

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