issues like total surrender, submission, and lordship. Privatism leads to religious lives that are compartmentalized, in which God occupies several unrelated and often isolated segments of our lives but not all segments. It gives us permission to set up other compartments where no one, including God, has the right to enter. Harvard professor Stephen Carter points out in The Culture of Disbelief that society finds it easy to tolerate “people whose religion consists of nothing but a few private sessions