In the novel, "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, the author writes about an utopian society named World State where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. Within the novel there are two characters, Mustapha Mond and John the savage, who discuss about religion in the society and the existence of a God in it. Mustapha Mond is the most powerful and intelligent proponent of the society, a brainwashed man, who in the past used to be an independent-minded scientist, and reads Shakespeare's literature and the Bible. While John is an outsider, son of two members of the society, Linda and the Directors son. He was raised in different conditions in a savage reservation. He is a free-minded man who takes his values from the 900-year-old author William Shakespeare and falls in love with Lenina Crowne, a vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery. Because both of them have been raised in different conditions and in a different world, they have different views of what religion is and the need of God in their lives. From his experience as a Controller in World State, Mustapha Mond knows that religion used to exist there. There used to be something called God - before the Nine Years War (230). Although Mustapha says that religion or God used to exist in the society, he and everyone else believe in Ford. They view and treat Ford as a God though they do not think this could be possible because there is no religion anymore. But at the same time Mond believes there could be a God when John asks him if he thinks there is a God, Monds answer was I think there quite probably one, but he manifests himself in different ways to different men. He probably manifests himself as an absence (234). Then Mustapha Mond says to John God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happin