AA is not being honest. AA immediately tells newcomer it's a spiritual program--not religious. Yet in 1939 Harry Emerson Fosdick's favorable review of AA's big book stated: "The core of their whole procedure is religious." Fosdick again (1956): "Moreover, these testimonies bear witness to religion's reality, for Alcoholics Anonymous is deeply religious." People need to be told the truth instead of AA pulling the wool over their eyes from the minute they walk in the door. They need to know religious concepts are involved, because then they can at least try to be on their toes in averting major guilt trips.

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