[...] ancient Babel was followed by the confounding of language and the scattering of men over the face of the earth, so the civil establishment of religion has ever had a dividing and dispersing influence. Nothing has tended more to separate the people of God from each other than the civil establishment of Christianity, although, it is remarkable enough that, like the Tower of Babel, it was intended by men to have the very opposite effect. (pp. 13-14, The Tower of Babel, or Confusion in Language)