" 'Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happitnees. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chose machinery and medicine and happiness' " (234).
After reading this chapter, I am confident that the Controller has given serious thought to the question of religion. He seems to have a vast knowledge of the subject, but still thinks that God is not relevant in their modern society. I do not agree with him on this because if he really wanted God in his life and the lives of the people in the society, he could have made it work. God is a very flexible man. He can work with machinery and medicine and happieness; he just needs to be let into the hearts of the people.
While I do not agree with the above aspect of the Controller's reasoning, I do partially agree with something he said a little later. "People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God." I think to some extent, Mond has a point here. In our society today, many children believe in God just because their parents have taught them to do so. From birth to probably the teenage years, children believe in God because their parents make them pray before meals and before bed and go to church on the weekends. Until people are able to make decisions for themselves, the decision concerning faith is up to the conditioning of the parents.
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