Down,

While I understand you have strong beliefs, and I respect those beliefs, I find that you seem to feel your opinions are the right opinions while others are not.
I still don't understand how you think the 12 Steps of NA/AA are some kind of cult. Please allow me to share something with you, straight from the book of NA/AA:

-What Is The Narcotics Anonymous program?-

NA is a NONPROFIT fellowship or society of men and women for who drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help eachother stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only ONE REQUIREMENT for membership, THE DESIRE TO STOP USING.

No where in there does it say you have to pay a fee to be a member nor do you have to believe in God. It's a spiritual program, not a religious program. If it was a cult, there'd be WAY more requirements and they'd be severe, unlike the only suggestion they make to be a member, which is the desire to stop using. I've seen many atheist come into NA meetings who wondered what they were supposed to believe in. What were they told? Believe in anything greater than yourself that's positive. Your power of addiction was greater than yourself and now you need something positive to be greater than you. That does NOT mean God. Sure, some use God as their Higher Power, but some use nature, some use music, some use the group as their higher power because as a group, they help you when you're in need. The list is endless of what a higher power can be.

Hope you can understand this a little better now.