Religion In Brave New World By Mustapha Mond

Not all people who are religious have sound morals, just as not all people who are atheistic are immoral. In his article, John Arthur discusses why religion does not depend on morality and morality does not depend on religion. Arthur seeks to alter the perspective of those who believe religion is necessary within a society to have a proper moral code. Many believe religion provides a purpose in life, a motivation to do what is right, and a set list of guidelines to follow in order to be a good person.

Freud illuminates with slight sarcasm how convenient religion is in it's ability to rectify all the trials and tribulations of life for us. "Everything that happens in this world is an expression of the intentions of an intelligence superior to us, which in the end, though its ways and byways are difficult to follow, orders everything for the best." (Freud, 23) The existence of this divine creature who creates justice for us ensures that the masses will not stray from the laws and beliefs of religion and society for fear of being judged by this entity. Religion is also valuable to civilization for it's ability to explain death. Thanks to religion, death became something other than simply the termination of a life. Death stopped being the end and was recasted into the role of a doorway to another existence. As though knowing that the continuation of life were not enough, religion furthers it's own appeal by promising that the afterlife will be better than life on Earth. The afterlife itself also serves a function as well. A desire to gain entry into this afterlife will cause many of the masses to renounce their instincts.

Society in all cultures share a common trait: Religion. Studying religion in any society reveals many of their traits and explains the actions of the individual. For example, Jewish people live their lives according to what was written in the Talmud and the Torah. They respect the Sabbath and also eat Kosher meat. Even when looking at Huxley's A Brave New World, analyzing religion still helps us understand the actions of the societies and characters within the book.

In his book, A Critical Introduction to the Study of World Religions, Craig Martin aims to introduce undergraduate students to a socio-functional approach in exposing the methods in which religion disrupts class equality. He succeeds by using intelligible explanations, arguments, and examples to skeptically understand how man is shaped by religion.

Religion has held an important role in society since the beginning of civilisation and it has such power over people’s minds and shape the way our world developed. Whilst some sociological theories such as functionalist sees religion as performing a positive function in society as it can lead to social solidarity, integrating people into society, other sociological theories such as Marxist and Feminist totally disagrees with this and would argue that religion leads to instability and conflict in society.

Religion can be powerful under the right certain circumstances for social change. However it can be argued that religion can be a conservative force.

The World Leaders didn’t completely remove religion from the equation, but cherry picked the plumpest and juiciest parts, while discarding the mushy and rotten bits that nobody wants: sacrifice, repentance and remorse. In Mustapha Mond’s own words, “Christiantiy without tears”. But the religion they put as a place holder is merely a shell of what could be something meaningful, and it’s wasted potential and

There is a wide array of uses for religion, but the most important aspect is how it teaches us morals. An example of this deriving from the Abrahamic faiths would be the Ten Commandments by Moses as it teaches us basic principles of morality and compassion such as loving and respecting your neighbor or the Seven deadly sins that is associated with Christian teachings. Morality is the center of all religions and answers the fundamental questions of our existence and why events may occur (Nord and Hayes). When the loss of religion or faith occurs, society seems to be bleak. Brave New World and Crime and Punishment are both experiencing or have experienced the loss of faith. Brave New World has citizens who consume soma which is a type of drug that enables its users to become hypersensitive to the world around them. This hypersensitivity allows them to be in encapsulated and feel emotions unlike ever before. It practically becomes their religion as the hail the great Henry Ford who first introduced the assembly line. There aren’t any Abrahamic faiths that exist within this society. It makes us question why the individuals must who participate in such a degrading activity that handicaps them. They are slaves to being “free”, but it’s only an illusion of freedom as they are still united through the ritual of “orgy porgies” that requires all of them to participate in group sexual intercourse. It’s apparent that there are no morals that exist within this society. Relationships have become a taboo as wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, sister, brother and any other connection to another human is frowned upon in society. The whole idea of the “orgy porgies” is for them to replace the intimacy that is provided by another human and be replaced by a group. The sense of intimacy that is built within a relationship is lost and seems more

Religion is a necessity to life, as backed up by Thomas Paine’s “American Crisis.” Paine has had quite the history revolving around the American government, as he wrote “Common Sense,” a best seller that offered a rhetorical view about why the colonies should split from Britain. However, he then decided to write “American Crisis” in order to offer his unique but logical view on religion and how everyone should go about deciding what they worship. His idea was that religion is necessary in order to live and keep one’s morals straight, however widespread religion are corrupting and brainwashing everybody, so everyone should have their own religion in the church of their mind.

“Religion plays a key role in dystopian fiction.” With reference to The Children of Men and Brave New World, how far do you agree with this statement?

In the novel, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, creates a society run by the government that does not contain any type of religion. This sort of creation begs the question… Is the society truly happy without religion? Brave New World focuses on the society and it’s ability to function without any sort of religion. The majority of society believes that their only source of happiness is from a drug called soma.

Religion has been a powerful force in human history. Mankind has longed and searched for the answers to its purpose, the reason for being and the possibility of life after physical death. They reasoned that an afterlife would be a place of accounting and reckoning for the life they lived on earth. Religious belief systems seemed to give the answers as to how to prepare for the afterlife. Religion became the means of giving answers to those basic yet deep-seated questions of both life and death. Religion provided a format of rules and laws for conduct and treatment toward others based on the desires and wishes of a god or gods that people envisioned, imagined or invented. Religious belief systems have been a powerful force for good and bad...good in the sense that it provided a measure of individual behavior and order in society for the wellbeing of the whole, but bad in the sense that men of ambition who craved power and control over others would often use religion as a tool of manipulation and fear. A casual glance of history tells us that complete civilizations have been built, grown and maintained around elaborate religious systems, ancient Egypt being a prime example.

Religion in the world has always been considered a rather important aspect of society. Although this is true, there are still people that question the existence of God. A survey done among 1000 people showed that 65 percent of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence on American life (Sheler, 8). Even so, Belief in a God is necessary for a moral society because since the beginning of history man has always made up some sort of role model to explain events and situations that seem inexplicable, God gives people a sense of comfort and hope to know they aren't alone, and when a society believes in a God, there is a religion behind it that gives ethics and values that they must

Religion in the world has always been considered a rather important aspect of society. Although this is true, there are still people that question the existence of God. A survey done among 1000 people showed that 65 percent of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence on American life (Sheler, 8). Even so, Belief in a God is necessary for a moral society because since the beginning of history man has always made up some sort of role model to explain events and situations that seem inexplicable, God gives people a sense of comfort and hope to know they aren’t alone, and when a society believes in a God, there is a religion behind it that gives ethics and values that they must

Throughout history, religion has proved to be the main source of social stability in different communities and cultural groups. Everything that is part of a societal system, including law, is influenced by religious beliefs and practices of that society. This being said, most religions are based on the theory that there is a single more powerful entity, that has control over aspects of which humans do not. For the longest time in history, sociologists have argued that peer group, political movements, schools and most importantly, the family to be agents of socialization. Because of this reason, they have ignored the role played by religion in the perpetuation of cultural as well as social