God's Role in a Misery-Free Society

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World portrays a world in which pain and suffering have been all but eliminated, where pleasure is perpetual, and where society is immersed in stability. In a world such as this, the novel argues, there is no need for God and religion. God is simply a response to human suffering, and since there is no suffering in the novel, not even in death, God ceases to be useful. Modern society reflects …

…However, the answer to this question is much more complicated, and reveals that perhaps people do have some inherent reliance on religion. Both the novel and human history also suggest that God may actually be built into human nature, not merely the result of previous conditioning. If this is true, then religion will always be a force in human history, and the society of Brave New World may never exist outside of the human mind.