When and where did you attempt? I don’t recall seeing you do so
here before?

For starters: religion is not about progress or even about social
issues at all. Religion is about worshipping God. That said, a
Christian ought to be concerned about the state of the world,
so should contribute to social improvements.

If you redefine the statement to say: "That all human progress
has come inspite of, not because of, the work of Christians"
then I will happily debate it with you as you are undoubtedly
wrong.

If you restrict the statement to the abstract of "religion"
then your point is meaningless so there is no benefit in debating
it.

Next you ought to define "progress". Not all movement
is progress – some movement takes us backwards or sideways. Our
modern society with it’s huge rates of crime, homelessness, family
break ups etc is not NECESSARILY progressing.

If you read more history you might be surprised as to how many
great steps forwards were initiated or carried through by Christians.
Start with William Wilberforce, the man who devoted much of his
life to the outlawing of slavery in the UK. There are plenty of
others.

I presume that you have never heard of organisations such as the
Salvation Army or St Vincent de Paul? We haven’t always got it
right – people like Galileo would attest to that but we’ve certainly
made many vital contributions to progress ands will continue to
do so.

Michael Smith Emmenjay Consulting