A Handful of Anti-A.A. Devotees Try to
Crowd Christians out of A.A.
A.A. History—Bible Roots—Diversity—Dozens
of Christian Denominations
A handful of today’s
anti-A.A. writers are adept at the rhetorical straw man arguments they summon
from the Bible. But that doesn’t make their arguments valid, truthful, or
useful. We call at least one of them the master of obfuscation and queer
reasoning.
Take the queer reasoning
of just one “reformed” writer who talks about his word like fire. Let him find
that someone in A.A. once sniffed glue, once smoked pot, once swore like a
trooper, once read a book by Emmet Fox, once investigated spiritualism, once
used LSD, once joined the Boy Scouts, once belonged to the American Legion, once
attended Saddleback Church, once was an altar boy, once helped a drunk get
sober through prayer-Bible-study-Christian churches, once was a Rotarian, once went to a military academy, once took a four
year Bible-study course in his Vermont high school, once was president of the
YMCA, once voted for Herbert Hoover, once showed an addict how to become clean
and sober through belief in God and accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and
once peeped inside of a canary’s nest and saw nestlings there. Then, out come half
a dozen or less Bible verses which are supposed to paste such a one as the
anti-Christ and as hell-bound for destruction. Never mind that Christ died to
save sinners. Never mind that Yahweh is the Lord that heals. Never mind that
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Never mind that there is now no
condemnation in those who walk by the spirit, and not after the flesh. Never
mind that the faithful know who is the captain of their salvation. Never mind
that we don’t fight against flesh and blood—but against principalities and
powers and wickedness in high places (all propelled by that old Dragon—the accuser,
the beast, the prince of darkness.
If paramedics,
firemen, policemen, therapists, counselors, pastors, Sunday school teachers,
nurses, medical technicians, psychiatrists, doctors of medicine and optometry
and dentistry, soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, Coast Guard personnel,
governors, senators, assemblymen, mechanics, laborers, secretaries, computer
geeks, steel workers, automobile workers, coal miners, railroad engineers,
airplane pilots and attendants, accountants, bookkeepers, writers, professors,
scientists, elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers, high school
teachers, college lecturers, and others who regularly serve us were to adopt
the queer reasoning of the self-anointed seer of his own word like fire. Who
would be left to help anyone with their daily needs!
Any fool can quote a
Bible verse like “there is no God. . . .” Any fool can take that portion of the
verse and claim it IS the word of God. And any fool can claim biblical
authority from the verse for atheism. And any fool can take any verse out of
context and omit the part that declares the whole truth that the “fool hath
said there is no God.” The same slimy half-quotes can be applied to Psalm 115.
And there’s a good example of how to corrupt understanding of the one true
living God or simply accepting that He is Almighty God, the Creator, the Father
of Jesus Christ.
If those employing
such queer reasoning—be they “reformed” or not---hope to apply a litmus test to
anyone serving and loving God and anyone serving and loving his neighbor, then
they might as well climb into a spider hole like that prepared for Saddam
Hussein and claim they are virtuous and innocent of harming others because they
can’t see the world around them any more.
My Bible says Ye are
of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is
in you than he that is in the world.
The thousands of
Christians and other believers who help alcoholics and addicts do swallow a bit
of the queer gospel from time to time. But if the Red Cross, the United Way,
the Salvation Army, the Peace Corps, the Lions Club members, and the
radiologists did, pity those who find themselves in a fix like the students
facing guns, the residents facing hurricanes, the hostages being seized, the
millions who are hungry, and the hordes facing cholera. I’d rather hang with
the helpers—not the hurters, no matter what type of book they claim as sacred.
Especially when they quote them out of context and then devote reams of copy to
trying to destroy others. Particularly if they regard the Bible as the Word of
God—all of it, not just some snippet that is irrelevant to the point at hand.
When one of their
targets has published forty-six acclaimed history books and more than 1250
historical articles and they can’t even quote one correctly, then it’s time for
them to put the slings and arrows away and see where they too might be able to
serve and glorify God and His Son Jesus Christ if they reject their carnal
Christian accusations. Let’s watch and see if they ever do.
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