Regarding organized religion, a quote attributed to Diderot [0] goes as follows:...

Regarding organized religion, a quote attributed to Diderot [0] goes as follows:

    Le genere humain ne sera heureux et libre que quand on aura étranglé le dernier roi avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.

Or, in plain English:

    Man will be happy and free only when the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

However, I like to complete it with a quote from Voltaire [1]:

    L'univers m'embarrasse, et je ne puis songer - Que cette horloge existe et n'ait point d'horloger

Or, in plain English:

   The universe baffles me, and I cannot conceive - That this clock exists, yet has no clockmaker.