A Conference for Atheist and Agnostic Alcoholics is Taking Place in California This Weekend

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6. Distressingly, it is both spiritual and religious to me

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All the state supreme courts and federal appeals courts that have heard these cases about A.A./N.A. religiosity agree (that's 6 out of 6), and that therefore, on First Amendment Establishment Clause grounds, government cannot coerce any inmate or parolee to attend A.A./N.A. meetings. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear one of these appeals court rulings, letting this ruling stand.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1144174#post32

Not just my opinion, not just the courts' opinions, please check out aaagnostica.org which is spearheading a rapidly growing agnostics in AA movement, most by people who don't fit in with regular A.A. and who find the proselytization about a prayer-answering favor-dispensing deity unhelpful and alienating.

Some people think it is religious, some not, and hopefully we can leave it at that and hopefully avoid a rehash of all that is in that http://www.democraticunderground.com/1144174 thread, in which every imaginable point pro and con has been made and dissected.