Brave New World God's Not Dying Essay

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God’s Not Dying Is our society near to the Brave New World society in religious views? The American society was built on the backbone of religion, the Constitution was written and created with a mind of God and the 10 Commandments. America is a battlefield and the future of its very soul will depend on the outcome of a war (Laderman).Most people are conditioned into being a religious follower by their parents, but they have a choice to believe and give their lives over or to not believe.
The percentage of Americans regularly attending church hasn’t drastically changed much over the past 30 years (Chalabi). Eighteen percent of people think of themselves as religious people but they don’t practice the religion. Religion has always been the core of the American society (Laderman). Religion has its conflicts with the society in which it’s being practiced. Americans still believe in God but they surely do not agree about how to define and understand God (Laderman). Religion changes and forms with the technology and the different advances in life, but that doesn’t mean that religion is going to completely diminish. A survey asked about congregation worship in 1998 came to the conclusion in which: “worship services
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The religious sentiment will compensate us for all our losses. But there aren’t any losses for us to compensate; religious sentiment is superfluous (Huxley). Huxley thought that being religious was a waste of time. He showed this in his book when Mustafa Mond said “God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.” Huxley replaced God and the Ten Commandments with Ford and the technology of the vehicle. Huxley also replaced God with the mind-altering drug “soma”. Huxley takes all the ideas of a Christian religion and transforms them into a utopia full of mind controlling substances and the technology of Henry

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