secular

/ˈse-kyə-lər/

Middle English, from Anglo-French seculer, from Late Latin saecularis, from saeculum the present world, from Latin, generation, age, century, world; akin to Welsh hoedl lifetime

adjective

  1. of or relating to the worldly or temporal

  2. not overtly or specifically religious

  3. not ecclesiastical or clerical

secular concerns

secular music

noun

  1. an ecclesiastic (such as a diocesan priest) not bound by monastic vows or rules : a member of the secular clergy

  2. layman

noun

  1. humanism viewed especially as relying on reason, logic, and naturalism as opposed to religious dogma and supernaturalism

Some items on the spiritual person's shopping list are easily supplied by secular humanism. Easiest of all are two that people often find intuitively the most perplexing: how can there be meaning in life and moral values in a world without gods?