I always believed religion was incompatible with a society rooted in addressing material reality, although I know we have have religious users and wanted to hear people’s takes.
I always believed religion was incompatible with a society rooted in addressing material reality, although I know we have have religious users and wanted to hear people’s takes.
I’m inclined to agree with this take and, although I can’t speak for the tech-using Mennonites and their level of non-theism, I can say that they are very often at the forefront of social justice movements and also in Ukraine during the civil war, a proportion of the Mennonite community there took up arms and joined the Bolsheviks which speaks to their compatibility with communism (although these were Mennonites as defined by an ethno-religious group and not necessarily strictly devout as per the Mennonite faith - details are extremely scanty, unfortunately, and you’d probably need to speak to an American Mennonite historian to find out if there’s any more information about the Bolshevik Mennonites) so I would find it convincing if someone threw the progressive Mennonites into this group although personally it wouldn’t be my first answer.
Most actually believing modern Mennonites are still fundamentally theists, but in my country almost everyone on the young side of millenial and younger is no longer an actual believer nor a churchgoer. Most of them have a sort of cultural attachment to the identity though and don’t really have a better one to replace it with, and I’ve found it still informs their (usually) progressive or outright leftist politics.