Challenge someone's knowledge of history and their understanding of religious extremism and progress.
I think a little more research in 'actual' history might surprise you. Rome (even while Christianity was the official religion of Rome), fell, because of a long line of incestuous idiots dictating orders that had no connection to "mocking the lord." Sheesh man, the word 'progress' has only been politically used for the last 500 years, and in the face of superstitious religious extremism who's only purpose is to dictate intolerance and pep talk the superstitiously gullible into spreading the most impacting lie on human history.