So Avishai, are you in agreement with those Stockholm syndromers who say the WTB&TS was the best thing that ever happened to them? Do you think it was?
For those who have been to AA and think it was a cult:
Were you counseled for inappropriate dress at AA meetings?
Inappropriate hair length?
Were beards on men considered unseemly?
Were women told not to wear pants to the meetings?
Was it "forbidden for a woman to speak" at the meetings?
Did they tell you not to speak to family members who were not in AA?
Did they dictate what medical treatments were approved by AA?
How many hours of you time each week did they commandeer?
How many times did they suggest that you should leave your estate to them instead of giving it to your family?
Do they have an international HQ where members take a vow of poverty and work like dogs in exchange for meals and a bed?
Do they send you from door-to-door to spread the word?
Do they tell you which sexual practices are appropriate?
Do they condemn homosexuals and insist that they can only be accepted if they're celibate?
Do they mock "false rehabilitation methods" as being demonic?
If you are sick, your doctor will tell you what to do to get well. Sometimes you have to take bitter medicine, or submit to the knife that does not make him a cult leader.
If you want to be relieved of substance abuse problems, it isn't going to happen with Tinkerbell waving her sparkly wand; it will take hard work and some people aren't willing to work hard, even to save their lives.
