Secularism (secular humanism)
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
12:41 PM
"A way of life and thought pursued without reference to God or religion."
<Gill, D. W. "Secularism, Secular Humanism." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, by Walter A. Elwell. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. Accessed October 12, 2023.> [link].

The word secular means worldly/temporal rather than spiritual/sacred/religious.
The distinction between the sacred and the secular is not an unbridgable gap. Jesus, who is sacred, stepped into a secular world not to promote religious authoritarianism, but to reveal the sacred to "whosoever will." 