'Change and progress' - not necessarily the same thing. Some changes are indeed for the better, some are very much for the worse.

But that's continuing drift of the thread that doesn't really belong here.

There's big difference between not sharing a belief and opposing it, and different meanings of belief. There's a sense in which I strongly believe in Father Christmas. There's a sense in which I believe in a just society. But I don't expect to see either of those as I go around.