The assumption that "progress" (apologies for my scare quotes) has a universally shared definition.
I would consider scientific progress (and therefore destruction of religion) a universally accepted progress. I mean, you can be a religious and SAY it's not, but it's the same as a religious pointing at a duck and saying "NO IT'S A COW!".
You don't know what religion is. You literally do not know what the actual social sciences definition of religion is.
Oh, Nathan. Look at that post. Just read it. Can't you ever tell when I'm just having fun?
Your definition of "fun" is pure evil, so...
And as for the answer to the OP's question, intelligent people.