Even if it does descend into a flame war at some point, I feel that it's interesting to observe people's viewpoints.

Personally, I'm not religious and I tend to view the tech world through that filter. I forget that some tech people might have other philosophical or religious beliefs.

At some level, I assume that Tech people are smart, and thus don't believe in religious.

This is obviously untrue, so now I'm curious to see if people's religious beliefs, or lack of them, impacts the tech work that they do.

i.e. is there any crossover in the venn diagram of religion and tech, or are they entirely isolated from each other.

Historically, religious groups sometimes funded purely scientific endeavors. Of course, sometimes religious groups went after science that was inconvenient to belief... But both actions indicate a precedent.