I'm not aware of any 12-Step programs being introduced during detox; maybe they are. Most people in detox are still on the first few parts (words) of the 1st Step. Admission takes some quite a while; powerlessness even longer.
Not everyone comes to AA or the others via an institutional setting where a supervised type of detox would be an element.
People may *be* detoxing when they first see the 12 Steps and they may *see* the word God in the 3rd Step and not read past that to "as we understood Him," but their brains are probably not yet unscrambled, if so. It wouldn't register.
I haven't ever heard any uninitiated say that about inanimate objects, but I've heard many sponsors say it to sponsees. Sometimes that's all that will work.
None of this really has to do with what a court orders a person to do and believe me, plenty of courts order defendants to attend meetings for so many days, usually 90. The God issue never comes up in that decision, that I'm aware of.
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