Maybe you've read or heard this quote, often attributed to C. S. Lewis:
They'll tell you that you can have your religion in private, and then they'll make sure you're never alone.
I spent quite some time poking around looking for a citation for this quote and, alas, I found none. However, I did find what I assume is the source for this ubiquitous quotation, from Lewis's Weight of Glory, in a chapter called "Membership":
When the modern world says to us aloud, "You may be religious when you are alone," it adds under its breath, "and I will see to it that you never are alone." To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek calends. That is one of the enemy's stratagems.
The more you know…
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