thats pretty weird and hypocritical. maybe its run by someone who just knows a lot about it but doesnt practice

Some are new order and even drive cars (they have to be black with no chrome). Their Barns have to be powered, animal rights thing that the Government enforces... there are many different things than just the Horse-and-buggy types... even gay Mennonites. Very diverse people.

Fight fire with fire, Ending is near, Fight fire with fire, Bursting with fear WE ALL SHALL DIE! Okay, so maybe the Mennonites and Metallica aren't COMPLETELY on the same page. However I think they are perhaps using the action vs. equal and opposite reaction technique to negate whatever negative effects they believe exist (with technology). More simply put, using technology to counter technology or...fightning fire with fire. Okay, I'm gonna stop before I bust out with another Hetfield chorus

I want to respond to several of the answers on here, but it will be too long for comments, so I'll post it as an answer. What I'm seeing here is not what I've learned from my college Basic Christian Beliefs class, from several books I've read about the Amish and Mennonites and from living among the Amish and Mennonites for a good portion of my life. The heresy preached by Menno Simons was not, to my knowledge, that Jesus wasn't born of Mary. His heresy against the Catholic church was to preach that we shouldn't baptize babies, but should wait until the child was old enough to make a reasoned decision to join the church on his/her own. Now, if I am remembering correctly, Simons, like most early protestants (protestors against the Catholic Church) was a Catholic priest. The protestant reformation came about because of the invention of the printing press, which put Bibles into the hands of priests and lay people for the first time and allowed them to read it for themselves. Remember, up until this time, Bibles or any books were hand copied and were so rare and expensive that only the very rich could have them. Most people couldn't read them either, as most people didn't get any schooling. That is why education was so important to early protestants and they carried that respect for education in order to read the Bible for oneself into the new world, where it became part of our culture. Mennonites suffered terrible persecution in Europe. They were basically driven out of society to eke out a marginal life on the sides of mountains, which is why they became such good farmers. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=55J3p3XtxnI&feature=PlayList&p=B45F10CAC67EDBD7&index=5 The above video is part of a series, and they are all worth watching. The persecution of the Mennonites led to them being rather insular and apart from the world. Most of the policies of the church are designed to keep the families home and together at night and to keep them from being dependent on "the world." If you have suffered terrible persecution, that attitude make sense. What is different is that they have kept that attitude for several hundred years. The Amish, followers of Jacob Amman, broke off the Mennonites because they felt that the Mennonites were getting too worldly. They are much more conservative than the Mennonites. Fairly recently, there was a major shift among the Mennonites. I want to say it was somewhere in the 1920's or 1930's, there was a young Mennonite leader who came to realize that the Bible commands us to go out and spread the Good News, and that we aren't offered the freedom to be insular. Most of the early leaders of the church suffered great persecution and continued to go out and preach until they were executed for preaching. So the young church leader lead a portion of the Mennonite church to become very evangelistic and to send missionaries out to the world. This has fundamentally changed the Mennonite Church. Part of the church, the old order Mennonite, continue to be insular and to use horses. But another part of the church has gone out into the world. And after they go out into the world and preach the good news, there has to be somewhere for the new Christians to go to church. So some Mennonite churches are very modern and very multicultural and multiracial. In between the two poles of conservative, German speaking, horse and buggy Mennonites and the modern, world wide, evangelistic Mennonites is a whole spectrum from those who drive cars but paint the chrome black, to those who get around with tractors pulling wagons, to those who use tractors but insist on steel wheels (so you can't use them on main roads) to those who use buggies with rubber tires to those who use buggies with steel tires. Each represents a different level of keeping the family at home at night. That website seems to be an expression of the evangelical and fairly modern branch of the Mennonite Church.