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BNW chapter 17 notes

Both John and the Controller are left alone 
There was something called God, before the Nine Year’s War
The Controller has books about God
The civilization choose machinery, medicine, and happiness
Controller believes that there is a chance God exists 
John believes you can judge a world by the values
John believes that people NEED God (noble and heroic)
The Controller believes that there is no need for noble and heroic 
Controller said that soma is “Christianity without tears”
John wants God, poetry, danger, goodness, sin, and freedom 
The Controller tells John the hw is welcome to have all those things  

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