Today Is...Alcoholics Anonymous Is Founded

In general, an alcoholic is someone defined as someone who craves alcohol and for anyone with alcohol issues, Alcoholics Anonymous is the most well known source for battling against their demons but what i didn't know was that what the AA want you to do is swap that double whisky for a dose of double religion.
It all began with the Christian movement modeled after first-century Christianity by Robert Hughes today in 1935 who experienced a bright flash of light, which he felt to be God revealing himself and deduced 'to help others overcome a physical compulsion, coupled with a mental obsession to consume alcohol' but he struggled to find enough alcoholics willing to swap Gin for God so toned down the blatant religious parts, and sneaked them into his 12 steps instead.  
Step two of the program is to accept that only a Power greater than ourselves can restore our sanity and the third step is to turn our lives over to God.
The fifth step is to admit to God the nature of our wrongs which leads on to the sixth step which is to ask God to remove these defects of our character and the seventh to ask God to remove our shortcomings.
The eleventh is to improve our conscious contact with God by praying and the final twelfth step is to have a spiritual awakening and carry this message to other alcoholics. Apparently every meeting then end with a rousing rendition of the Lord's Prayer.
The NHS website has a link to the Alcoholics Anonymous website for people who think they may have a problem with alcohol but nowhere does it mention that it is a religious group which follows the line that 'You’re a sinner and your only chance of salvation is through our God' which you would have thought would be a major consideration if you are going to direct vulnerable people there.
Some people may have the view that if AA works and it stops people killing themselves with drink, then turning them onto religion is a fair trade off and i could accept that if AA advertised itself as a religious program but it doesn't and the UK website describes itself as spiritual, not religious but when seven of its twelve steps involve asking God to 'fix you', that screams of religion to me.
While they claim to only want to help people, it is clear that this help comes with strings attached, and these AA organisations are religious recruitment agencies aimed to sign up people at their lowest ebb and asking for help.
I also have a real problem with people who want you to believe that you need God to help you through your darkest times because if you do overcome addiction then YOU deserve all the credit because YOU did it, not some mythical man in the clouds who decided that he wanted to help you because you offered up a prayer to him because there are millions of people doing the same thing everyday in far worse situations who deserve to be helped who are ignored.