• pipikia@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I know AA meetings tended to occur in church basements or meeting rooms and assumed that part was to encourage the use of that resource. Was that the case for the meetings you know of?

    Some church administrators are surprisingly non altruistic unless you can point to it being faith-based.

    • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      It was indeed in a building that belonged to a church.
      The whole AA program (the 12 steps book) is very explicitly based on the idea that the only way you can recover from your addiction is through god.