Layman
Part of speech: noun
Definition: layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field a common person a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject a generally ignorant person lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order
Example sentence: My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.
Secular
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Not specifically religious.Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.Happening from age to age.Long-term.Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.Unperturbed over time.
Example sentence: If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?