I'm sorry they keep the Lord's prayer in AA. It, the word "God", and even "Higher Power" should be eliminated from these meetings, in my opinion. If there were more non religious/spiritual groups like AA/NA/AL-ANON, that would be fine having a Christian meeting, but there aren't. I just hate when AA members try to make excuses for this. It's offensive to me, and nothing they can concoct to excuse would convince me. I'm also not at all thrilled about some of the steps. Some clearly associate the negative aspects of addiction to "sin", no matter what. And a step that follows clearly deals with asking for a kind of forgiveness. In fact, there is a history of looking at some mental and neurological illnesses as "sins". It's stigmatic and sad that that persists to this day. Making excuses for clear stigmatism doesn't fly in my book. People who don't believe that that look the other way and make excuses are doing no good. It's analogous with many other severe issues.