I quite like Tim Minchin's take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IVuGK7sAw

The historical data I survey above tell me that there is a very easy way to destroy organized religion: destroy organization. 
 
I wonder how well Islam and Catholicism will last in the more anarchic states sub-Saharan Africa; how are things in Ruanda in that sense right now, does anyone know?

The second and third paragraphs of the paper surely present a false dichotomy; ?Facial expressions of emotion, thus, are universal because the same expressions are observed and modeled around the world in response to the same types of emotionally evocative situations.? ?? observation of others' facial expressions is surely not necessary for perception of their responses to one's own facial expressions.

No, toto; cf. the lack of support for and interest in the Afrikaaners in South Africa or the Europeans in Ian Smith's Rhodesia. And who knows or cares in the US about the Russians in Chechnya?