HP - yes, good advice. I have realized for quite some time (as I found myself only calling my old sponsor as a "dutiful obligation" since I no longer had any respect for him and his ignorant views) that I needed to make a change. And yes, I have to find a new meeting somewhere, even if I have to drive an hour or more to get to it.
Good advice on the other front as well. Getting involved and volunteering for efforts within our Tea Party has been a great way to meet more like-minded people. It was also something that was quite revealing to me in another way. In this area of NJ, one will usually see the same (rather large) group of people at all of the various AA meetings in the area. And when I am out and about in the area doing other things like shopping, town/county events, schools, working, etc., I quite often run into people that I know from meetings. A very natural overlap of the population subsets. But, at all of the Tea Party meetings and functions that I have attended this year (some quite large), I have not seen 1 person from any AA meeting, not even 1! I thought that was very revealing...
I'm sure, though, that there are conservatives who also attend AA meetings, but I've noticed that people who are meeting-HEAVY, are using AA as a type of "replacement addiction."
I seriously encourage you to find a new sponsor, someone whom shares your conservative world view and then no matter if it takes two hours to get there, to somehow locate a meeting where YOUR PEERS are in evidence.
AA works because it's people LIKE YOU, so you'd better the meeting that fulfills this requirement.
Guilt is healthy, but FALSE GUILT is simply a manipulative head trip, don't feel guilty about dumping a sponsor you've grown out of, replace him or her with a suitable sponsor for who you are TODAY.
That’s interesting. I was thinking while I was reading your original post that you seem to have become sober and grown in more ways than one. “The Truth will set you free” is also true in things other than religion.
The people at that particular AA group are apparently still drunk, but on Leftist Kool-Aid instead of alcohol.
What’s more sad is that they don’t want anything to interfere with the feeling they get from drinking that political kool-aid and encouraging one another in their intoxication.
Doesn’t seem much of a positive atmosphere to me.
God bless you, and yours, to continue to grow and strengthen in positive ways.