text: RE: Court ordered AA: "He has only to lift up the rug to discover in even the greatest theologies a measure of double talk" (Edmond La B. Cherbonnier in 'Is There A Biblical Metaphysic?'). The religious paradoxes in AA can be spub favorably or unfavorably depending on who is doing the spinning. It's certainly not the neophyte, at risk of major guilt trips that can take years if not decades to resolve. 
  
  AA should not be court ordered. It's been court ordered since the 1930's, yet DUI continues (worse yet, young people are increasingly court ordered into Celebrate Recovery, an even more religiously explicit program). More severe laws are needed instead. Public safety emphasis should be on crime prevention instead of religious programming under the guise of rehabilitation.
  
  Practicing altruism, or agape love over eros love, requires the willingness and the wherewithal that is, unfortunately, too often unrealistic (unless you're a monk in a monastery; (more in next post)