Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.
H. J Eckenrode
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The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.
H. J Eckenrode
3.
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.