I'm always pondering the difference between religion and spirituality. It's a tricky subject and one that many people think is crucial to the success of Alcoholics Anonymous. I hear this all the time: "The whole God thing drives more people away than anything else." This may be true although in my opinion what drives most people away is the fact that they'd prefer to keep drinking. If you don't want to quit you'll find a reason and "God" is a big target. What else are you going to bitch about? Our dress code? The decor of whatever church basement you're sitting in? I drank in some skanky-ass bars, I'll tell you that, and I was wearing yesterday's dirty clothes.
What I like to do is to look at the kind of life the person is living and judge their spiritual make-up by the kind of results they get. My sponsor was a devoted life-long Catholic who went to mass every day. I sponsor a guy who is a committed life-long atheist. Neither of these men have ever tried to convince me that they had all the answers. Both of these men are good men who are trying to live lives of service and love and devotion. So . . . I say to everybody keep doing what you're doing. Find your spiritual center wherever you can.
Don't be an asshole today. That's a spiritual axiom that I can get behind.
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