This is nothing more than someone complaining that they’re being required to consider that the idea of relentless innovation that steamrolls all other concerns

This is nothing more than someone complaining that they’re being required to consider that the idea of relentless innovation that steamrolls all other concerns might not be the right way to think about progress, and then contriving an idea that labeling technical progress as a religion is a way to sidestep a course requirement. This might seem like a profound idea to a university student who’s very technically minded, but it’s just exposing their naïveté. I would recommend that this person needs to spend more time exposed to non-technical pursuits to gain a better perspective on the world, instead of inventing “logical” ways to avoid such exposure. Having this requirement in the curriculum is ironically bolstered by the author’s objection to it.