Brave New World vs. Today’s Spiritual Crisis Religion is irrational. In both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Erich Fromm’s “Today’s Spiritual Crisis”, the connection is made between some form of religion and the affects on its believers. Huxley’s novel and Fromm’s essay point out the conflicting patters between religious belief systems and the behaviors they conjure. In “Today’s Spiritual Crisis” the contrasts shown between world religions and …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…there is no need for religion. From there everything starts to fade. Life becomes drab and monotonous. Purpose is gone. Everyone is the same. This is the price to pay for stability. If everyone tends to turn against their religion in some way, why do people still believe? People believe it for the common good, for internal peace, for a unique sense of community, identity, and stability all within the terms of their own rational.