Sorry for late editing, it felt too much writing to essentially mean the same thing.

I don’t mean it in a negative way. I just mean ideologies or religion doesn’t dictate what whole civilizations do. It is just a small part of it.

It is arbitrary to assign positive/negative outcomes to religion or ideology.

For example, the science advancement in Russia began before communism with Petro as far as I know. So the positive science success of Russia can't be attributed to communism only