Abuse Quote by Andrew Shaffer

“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these explicit references…

— Lance Dodes

“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There is an…

— David Foster Wallace

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a person who…

— Anthony Kiedis

“We Christians don’t get to send our lives through the rinse cycle before showing up to church. We come as we are—no hiding, no…

— Rachel Held Evans

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

— Nikki Sixx

“The modern food and drug industry has converted a significant portion of the world’s people to a new religion—a massive cult of pleasure seekers…

— Joel Fuhrman

“Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories…

— Harold Bloom

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They…

— Thomas Dubay

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

— Carrie Fisher

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

— Richard Dawkins

“WHEN GOD IS A DRUG—RELIGIOUS ADDICTION Mood alteration is an ingredient of compulsive/addictive behavior. Addiction has been described as “a pathological relationship to any…

— John Bradshaw