Bill didn't write "May you find IT now" or "May you find HER now". Bill wrote "May you find Him now"

Again, we have to point to the fact that A.A. founder Bill W. himself called Alcoholics Anonymous "Spiritual Kindergarten". That, and the fact that we're talking about alcoholics here. Wet or dry, members of AA are all alcoholics. Left untreated or guilty of "resting on our laurels" for even a short period of time as alcoholics are prone to do, alkies become the epitome of "self-will run riot". Particularly when a member has never really grown out of Spiritual kindergarten, who has become like a big fish in a little pond (AA community) solely because of the years he or she has abstained from alcohol, alcoholics tend to forget that our Serenity is contingent on the daily maintenance of our Spiritual condition.

Thnk about this for a moment: If a person has done so little homework that they remain in Kindergarten for 5, 10, 20 years or more rather than continuing their education and growth as normal folks do, would you expect them to be intellectual giants or even to be reasonable, being that they only have a Kindergarten education? Hardly. It would be absurd of anyone to expect even a life-long kindergartner to be mature, logical or reasonable. Nor do we expect from Kindergartners any semblance of social skills, discernment, grace, patience or education. We don't expect Kindergartners to know very much about anything because they simply are not educated yet.

AA's leadership structure is such that anyone can volunteer for virtually any leadership position. Clearly, over time, Secular Humanists with a grudge against religion have - just as they are everywhere else on the planet - been loud and rude and intimidating and have fostered a climate of ignorance that is now found relatively accepted in the AA community. That is to say, SHs have lowered the bar considerably from where Bill and Bob and the first more than 100 men and women had set it, so far, in fact, that the success rate of the Alcoholics Anonymous program has dropped from 78-93% to what AA today estimates to be 1-3%. Any business or relationship which had suffered such a dramatic drop in success would consider themselves bankrupt, would they not?

So there you have it. AA has morphed into a shadow of it's former self because alcoholics have spent years embracing Political Correctness rather than seeking the Lord with all of their heart. More concerned that someone might be offended by the mention of the Real Founder of the 12 Step program, alcoholics have been busy codepending the next Newcomer for years, keeping real AA history a secret from them and pretending that anyone or anything might be God. Bill didn't write "May you find IT now" or "May you find HER now". Bill wrote "May you find Him now" because Bill was referring to the Lord that is so openly referred to throughout the book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Granted, people still find sobriety there. By AA's own estimation, 1-3% of the people at a given meeting will be sober in a year.Yay. Not exactly statistics worth writing home about, let alone writing a book about. But just like the story of the old man throwing starfish back into the water at low tide, when someone pointed out that "Why bother when what you're doing isn't making any difference" Picking up another starfish and tossing it back into the water the old man said "It made a difference to that one". How many more people, then, might AA help if the leadership and the oldtimers simply humbled themselves and did what the book says to do? Bill spoke glowingly about the church community, clergy and about Our Father, who art in Heaven. It doesn't take rocket science to understand that Bill was pointing us to Jesus. And yet, all it takes is the collective belligerence of a few Politically Correct nazis coupled with the fear inherent in alcoholics in early recovery and suddenly the Lord becomes an unwanted guest. Oh, and the success rate for helping alcoholics recover drops from nearly 100% to virtually 0%. Stark, that.