Science as we know it today grew directly out of Catholic and Islamic theological “natural philosophy”. Roger Bacon, The father of modern science was a Franciscan friar. The abolition movement in the US (and similar pushes in Europe) we’re largely fermented in churches. And often on theological ground. Like wise the women’s suffrage movement was heavily driven and rooted in churches a d religious movements. The labor movement has significant roots in the Methodist Church.
As with all things there is good and bad. Because it’s all people. People have done terrible things through and because of religion. But they have done great things because of and through religion. Because people will do good and bad things because of all sorts of things. You can have a pissing match back and forth over well religion did x! Well secular society did y! Or you can acknowledge that history and society are complicated. And there is nothing special or different about religion in that regard.
