Denis Diderot, no? How about Émile Zola: "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest!" Same sentiment but with added irony.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
