You Can’t Talk Enough About Statistical
Horrors Alcoholism Brings to the
Affected and the Afflicted
A.A. and the Help of God
Dick B.
© 2013
Anonymous. All rights reserved
A note to William Bagley 28 who posted today’s
relevant statistics on ravages of alcoholism
Thank you for your statistics on alcoholism.
And the important thing is that there are millions more
affected by alcoholism than those afflicted with alcoholism. Pills and medicine
are not the answer. Way back in 1935, the leading doctor on alcoholism made it
plain that alcoholics were MEDICALLY INCURABLE.
Christian organizations and people like the YMCA, Rescue
Missions, Salvation Army, Great evangelists like Moody and Meyer and Sankey and
Folger, Congregationalism, and United Society of Christian Endeavor made a huge
dent by treating alcoholics not as people to be condemned, but as people to be
either redeemed or set on a renewed mind walk by the spirit. Their view was
contrary to that of contemporaries and predecessors who were anti-booze,
anti-saloons, and anti-drunks. And their punitive crusades faded with the
winds. For God was not their resort.
In only five or six decades, the treatment picture has
become as bleak as ever because people have now used government grants, rules,
and research to tell us that "religiosity" is the enemy of the
alcoholic and that "spirituality" (with its higher powers, nonsense
gods, absurd names for God, and self-made religion) is the new ticket to
recovery. It isn't. And God is. But only for those who want Him, believe in
Him, and seek Him (Hebrews 11:6) and learn as early AAs did from Romans 10:9
how to come to God through accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Some anti-AA folks call the above "Jesus talk" or
the Christianization of AA. It's not. God wants all men to be saved and come
unto the knowledge of the truth. Then it's up to them to turn, to repent and to
establish the relationship with God that history shows is as effective today as
ever.
Gloria Deo
