Who is treated as a kind of deity (god) by the society?

There's two kinds of deities in Brave New
World: Ford and John--just like there's two forms of God in the
Bible: Yahweh in the Old Testament and Jesus in the
New.

In the first half of the book, we have "Ford."  He is
a combination of Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud--as such, any iconic figure of that time
who sought to control people by scientific or technological methods.  He is also linked
to the World Controller and the Director of the Hatcheries, as both men help proliferate
the ideals of the utopia.  Ford is very much like the God (Yahweh) of the Old
Testament.

The deity in the second half of the novel is
John.  He is the Christ-figure found in the New Testament; the Son of God (Ford), or at
least, the son of the DHC.  He is the Chosen one come to free the people from their sins
(or at least their soma).  After he partakes in soma and orgy-porgy, he commits suicide,
showing that the dystopia is beyond saving.

It is important
to note that both gods fail: Ford & Freud and John.  All are too connected to
earthly things (materialism) to be spiritual deities.   As it was said of communism:
science and technology are the gods that fail.