I've found it to be an apt analogy in secular matters, as well.

Liberals replied that the church should not interfere in secular matters.

In the past, the mathadhipathi exercised powers over secular matters of the community too.

He also sponsored a ghetto school to educate Jewish boys in secular matters.

Innocent, therefore, had no objection to intervening in purely secular matters.

These poems tended to have both religious and secular subject matter.

You have had the better of us In secular matters.

He exercises his authority over the religious dispensation of people and secular matters.

Islamic culture did not enact a separation between religious and secular matters.

It was true that the Church did not like to intervene in secular matters directly.