This is silly not just because it is wrong, but because it also fails to account for the fact that most technological “progress” is the accomplishment of an extreme minority of people. A huge amount of them, as well, have been completely open to religion, viewing it as a different domain…

What you’re saying isn’t just wrong, it’s dangerously irrelevant to what “progress” even means…

And if you mean it in some ‘social progress’ sense of the word, you will not find much progress socially in atheist states.