Definitions

Definition of a layman per this website;

   A layman for the Kingdom of God would also be a saint, ambassador, minister of the Gospel, child of God, coheir with Christ, actually an eternal soul going to heaven not hell, filled with the Holy Spirit, equipped thoroughly with the word of God which is all that is necessary for the life which Jesus spoke of; when he stated "I am the way, the truth, and the Life".

A Mankind Characteristic;

Secularization; Very Scary

  Is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and institutions. The secularization thesis refers to the belief that as societies progress, particularly through Modernization modernization and Rationalization, and religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance. The term secularization is also used in the context of the lifting of the monastic restrictions from a member of the clergy. Secularization refers to the historical process in which religion loses social and cultural significance. As a result of secularization the role of religion in modern societies becomes restricted. In secularized societies faith lacks cultural authority, and religious organizations have little social power. Secularization has many levels of meaning, both as a theory and a historical process. Social theorists such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, postulated that the modernization of society would include a decline in levels of religiosity. Study of this process seeks to determine the manner in which, or extent to which religious creeds, practices and institutions are losing social significance. Some theorists argue that the secularization of modern civilization partly results from our inability to adapt broad ethical and spiritual needs of mankind to the increasingly fast advance of the physical sciences.