Anti-Alcoholics Anonymous Bystanders
Twenty or More Questions that Test Their
Hate-filled Devotion
Dick B.
© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved
Does the anti-Alcoholics
Anonymous challenger attend A.A. meetings, groups, seminars, or conferences?
Does this writer believe in God? Has this writer confessed with his mouth that
Jesus is Lord and does he believe in his heart that God raised Jesus from the
dead? See Romans 10:9. Has this writer read the 46 books and over 1300 articles
published by Dick B. on the Christian roots of the Twelve Step movement? I
have.
Has the anti-Alcoholics
Anonymous protagonist ever reached out to a suffering newcomer in an Alcoholics
Anonymous meeting? Has he ever welcomed one? Has he ever given his phone number
to one? Has he ever led anyone in Alcoholics Anonymous to accept Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior? Has he ever spoken at an A.A. meeting, group, or conference?
I have.
Has the vitriolic anti-Alcoholics
Anonymous scribe read the multiple biographies, writings, and autobiographies
of Bill Wilson, of Dr. Bob Smith, of Lois Wilson, of Anne Ripley Smith, of Dr.
William D. Silkworth, of Clarence H. Snyder, of Grace Snyder, of Rev. Samuel M.
Shoemaker, Jr., of Frank N.D. Buchman, of Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker, of Rowland
Hazard, of Garrett Stearly, of Cebra Graves, of Frank Amos, of Norman Vincent
Peale, of Ebby Thacher, of Father John C. Ford, of Sister Ignatia, of Father Ed
Dowling, of Russell Firestone, of James D. Newton, of Eleanor Forde Newton, of
Dwight Moody, of Ira Sankey, of F.B. Meyer, of Allen Folger, of Henry
Moorehouse, of Henry Drummond, of Billy Sunday, of George Williams, of General
William Booth, of Jerry McAuley, of S.H. Hadley, of Francis Clarke, of Amos
Wells, of Sherwood Eddy, of Henry B. Wright, of Robert E. Speer, of T.S.
Elliott, of Ethel Willetts, of Carl Jung, of William James, of Judge Walter
Smith, of Mrs. Walter Smith, of Gilman Wilson, of Helen Wilson, of Fayette
Griffith, of T. Henry Williams, of Clarace Williams, of Henrietta B.
Seiberling, of Sue Smith Windows, of Robert R. Smith, of Professor Weatherford, of B.H. Streeter, of L.
Parks Shipley, of James Houck, of Victor Kitchen, of A.J. Russell, of Harold
Begbie, of Stephen Foote, of Garth Lean, of Michael Hutchinson, of T. Willard
Hunter, of Cecil Rose, of Bunny Austin, of Harvey Firestone Sr., of Russell
Firestone, of Bill Wilson’s grandfather “Willie,” of Dr. Tunks, of Joe McQuany,
of Charlie Parmley, or of the Shoemaker circle of Christian believers in New
York, or of the Shoemaker circle of Christian believers in Pittsburgh?
I have. In fact, I
have interviewed most of these people, and read the books and articles most of
them have written.
Has the vociferous
anti-Alcoholics Anonymous writer ever spoken to A.A. group secretaries, treasurers,
General Service Representatives, Delegates, Trustees, archivists, and office
workers? I have.
Has the repetitious
anti-Alcoholics Anonymous advocate ever personally met, talked at length with,
and questioned A.A. newcomers? I have. Has he or she ever sponsored an AA? I
have. Has he or she ever spoken at a Celebrate Recovery meeting, an Alcoholics
Victorious conference, an Overcomers conference, an Overcomers Outreach, Inc. conference,
an Alcoholics for Christ meeting, a YWAM group, a Christian recovery
fellowship, a substance abuse treatment center, a Christian treatment center, an
assemblage of Christian Recovery Counselors, at Betty Ford, at Christian churches,
to Christian recovery fellowships, to conferences of Christian leaders and
workers from all over the world, to wardens, state and federal elected leaders
and substance abuse research leaders, to public officials concerned with the
drug and alcohol problems, to addictionologists, to universities, to
seminaries, to colleges, to interventionists, to detox specialists, to Hazelden
executives and workers, to Christian Protestant ministers, to Jewish Rabbis, to
Roman Catholic priests, to pastoral counselors, to Salvation Army officers and
volunteers, to Young Men’s Christian Association leaders, to Christian Endeavor
members and leaders, to rescue mission leaders and workers, to those who serve
at the Wilson House, the Griffith Library, the Dr. Bob Core Library, the St.
Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church and library in Akron, to the Calvary
Episcopal Church rector in Pittsburgh, to the rector of Calvary Episcopal
Church in New York, to the archivist at the Episcopal Church archives in New
York, to the archivist at Hartford Seminary, to the librarian at Princeton
University, to the principal founder of the Seiberling Gate Lodge renovation? I have.
Has the
anti-Alcoholics writer ever visited, examined the manuscripts and documents and
researched at the Griffith House Library, Wilson House, or East Dorset,
Vermont; at the East Dorset Congregational Church at the Burr and Burton
Seminary and Manchester Congregational Church in Manchester, Vermont; at the
Norwich Military Academy at Northfield,
Vermont; at the Vermont History Center in Vermont; at the Wilson home in
Rutland, Vermont; at the Mount Hermon School of Dwight L. Moody; at the
Fairbanks Museum or St. Johnsbury Academy archives and library; or the Dr. Bob
Core Library at North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; or St.
Johnsbury Academy; or Burr and Burton Academy; or the St. Paul’s Library in
Akron, Ohio; or the Seiberling Gate Lodge library in Akron; or the Episcopal
Church Archives in Austin, Texas; or the Shoemaker Room at Calvary Episcopal
Church in Pittsburgh; or the Brown University Collection; or the headquarters of
the Oxford Group in Washington, D.C.; or the libraries and collections of
Oxford Group leaders such as George Vondermuhll, Jr.; or the Buchman home in
Pennsylvania; or the offices and library of the Alcoholics Anonymous General
Service Office in New York; or the Princeton Alumni archives; or The Pittsburgh
Experiment offices and archives; at The Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation
leaders and with the original Pittsburgh “golf club crowd,” or the Hartford
Seminary Library; or the Bierce Library at the University of Akon; or the
libraries at Dr. Bob’s Home, or the present and retired archivists at Dr. Bobs
Home, of the Akron Intergroup; at Golden Gate Seminary and San Anselmo Seminary
in Marin County, California; of the records of Calvary Church in New York,
Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, or with
the university professors, historians, and librarians at well-known institutions?
I have. In fact either
my benefactors or I have donated over 30,000 books, manuscripts, papers,
articles to them.
If the few
anti-Alcoholics Anonymous writers and advocates have has answered “No” to
twenty or more of the foregoing questions, or to most, or to all, there’s a
question for each: When are you going to start learning instead of opining,
reporting instead of condemning, teaching instead of defaming, misquoting the Bible out of
context, telling truthful facts instead of occasionally quoting some other
anti-A.A. writer? If your answer to this question is equivocal, evasive,
negative, or confusing to us, then you have a lot of traveling, interviewing,
reading, learning, and thinking to do.
Will they?
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