To your first point, if so, I'll have to remind myself that that isn't the entirety of his point. There is value to be had, here. But, the "atheism devalues humanity" claim is so trite and mindless a statement that, in writing this book, one would hope that Huxley would notice some of his own conditioning.

A similar point could be made with regards to the second.

Huxley, like Orwell, seems to think he's taking issue with something new, rather than something that's just inescapably a part of the human societal condition.