https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7611269-freed-man-was-raised-in-region/
“self-described "pacifist Mennonite hippy-child" from Breslau..... Boyle ultimately returned to his Kitchener school to graduate, around the same time he was becoming heavily involved in online gaming”
I still haven’t found where I read he’d been of the Brethren faith, but in my personal experience with Mennonites, this doesn’t jive. A Mennonite carpenter made our cabinetry and he’d had to get a special dispensation from the elders to have electricity connected to his workshop a couple years earlier. One day when we went to check on progress he mentioned that he had “strayed” and may get in trouble. We asked if he’d had a drink of alcohol or something, but no, he’d taken his sick son to town to see a medical doctor, hadn’t gotten approval and didn’t know how they would punish him. IME from living near a large Mennonite community they do not routinely use electricity, internet or vehicles more modern than horse and buggies.
Our local Brethren/Dunkard ladies wear bonnets and the younger girls and the men do wear their hair long with a beard and usually a hat. They don’t allow (at least my great grandmother’s church) games of cards at all or partner dancing, I’ll have to ask my grandmother again. They certainly wouldn’t support internet gaming or cohabiting before marriage.
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