ABSTRACT
In this penultimate chapter, the author reviews some of the basic features of his personal quest and reiterates the arguments against the existence of God. He offers a narrative that is in part review of material he's already covered, in part additions to that material, and in part new material. The chapter recasts the evidence of the raiders of the last illusions, how types of societies predict types of religions, the functions of religion, the special features of the transcendental religions, politics and religion, the core features of the lives of magicians, wonderworkers, and messiahs and their parallels with the career of the mythic hero.
