The joke has been told a thousand times. That version had violinist Jascha Heifitz being hailed by a man on a New York street. Like all good stories, it comes to mind at intervals. That's where I thought of the apocryphal Heifitz story. Because, like many intellectuals, Professor Fukuyama, thoughtful to a fault, does not understand what religion is.
Religion is practice.
Let us suppose that the United States has become a decidedly less musical society than it was in, say, 1910. Now let us suppose we wanted to reverse this trend. Those things don't make a child, a family, or a social group musical. No, we would start our child taking music lessons. We would organize willing members of our family or club or church into a choir or a band.