"For example, if you could have demonstrated that vaccines belong to the religion of progress, could you be exempted by merely stating you do not believe in this god?"

Indeed, I have mentioned here once or twice that I am waiting for people to take up THIS type of "exemption". A sort of "No, I decline to join your cult" sort of argument.

I don't know if it rates as a negative exemption, but it places the burden of demonstrating that it is NOT "religious" back upon those who are so vexed and perturbed by any manifestation of doubt, hesitancy, non-compliance with regards to their revered pharmaceutical miraculous vial.