The progressive aim is to increase collective intelligence.  

Huh! This is offending. So now religious people are less intelligent in the eyes of you "progressive" people? Now who is asking for privileged position here? Now you want right for one group of the people calling themselves "progressive" to define intelligence, Wow! You people demand extra rights and how this statement is not political...very offending.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein