Baron D. Holbach
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (born Paul Heinrich Dietrich), was a philosopher, encyclopedist, and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment well known for his atheism and voluminous writings against religion.
“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests.”
Baron D. Holbach