i guess i can counter with, for last 200 year or so religion is in decline but still we have 2 world war , Hitler, Stalin, Mao, .. which has not thing to do with religion , so any inquiry, progress does not help

Also problem lies in people not religion ( there re few texts as you menioned because most of the books are corrupted , while Muslim claim there is not) we can have a discussion on religious text itself but if people using religion for political gain, controlling power , wrote some thing along the lines , https://medium.com/@mfakhar2000/jesus-is-sad-and-ashamed-926b0dc2b1a3