Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in …

- H. J Eckenrode

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

- H. J Eckenrode

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.

- H. J Eckenrode