The one thing Bill didn't do was become a megalomaniac. His letting go of leadership set AA apart from all other movements to help alcoholics. He made it a representative democracy and refused to dominate it. He also wrote into the traditions of the program that they would not proselytize but rather the public relations policy would be "attraction rather than promotion." That says a lot that a membership of millions would come solely through attraction.
Bill Wilson called AA a spiritual kindergarten
The one thing Bill didn't do was become a megalomaniac. His letting go of leadership set AA apart from all other movements to help alcoholics. He made it a representative democracy and refused to dominate it. He also wrote into the traditions of the program that they would not proselytize but rather the public relations policy would be "attraction rather than promotion." That says a lot that a membership of millions would come solely through attraction.
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