Drunkiness is close to Godliness.

Here are two of AA's steps out of their gaudy 12-step plan:

1. Come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
2. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him.

Seeing a strong emphasis on religion there? See anything wrong with that? Me either, to an extent, but my problem lies in the fact that people can be court ordered to attend this program. So if one of the mainstays of AA is to find God, and the courts can order someone to attend AA, isn't that the government forcing people to find God? It seems so, and pretty aimlessly, as AA has a whopping success rate of 5%. Do you know the success rate of people who quit on their own, without the assistance of other addicts in church basements? 5%. Yes, the exact same percentage. Statistics show that your chances of getting sober are exactly the same if you wake up one morning and decide to quit drinking as they are if you join AA. So why do people still go? Is it the feeling of fellowship that comes with ten other soon-to-be drunkards sitting next to you? I've always said that religion is a cesspool of loneliness and apparently so is AA. I guess I shouldn't sound so shocked as I write this; I mean, after all, it is AA.