Such as....AA emphasizing one must "let go absolutely" (implication being they'll return to drinking if they don't). It's a false teaching; an impossibility. Understood in its Christian context: Reinhold Niebuhr emphasized we are never entirely free of original sin. That means one cannot let go absolutely--there will always be some degree of self will, sinful nature, etc. remaining. Yet AA old-timers pretend they are walking their talk as it is written in the first 164 pages of the big book, that's why they're "happy, joyous and free" while the neophyte isn't. By the time they get to "We are not saints....we claim spiritual progress not perfection" it amounts to little more than a hollow epigram.