Possible Clues:

• As cruel, unfortunately, as some layman
• Worldly care left us struggling
• Lay out clues with endless care
• Not spiritual
• Not connected with religion
• Lay 2 as set out
• Profane cryptic clue - a solver edges from it!
• Ignoring God, as cruel as may be
• English version of Horatian Carmen
• Not religious and construed as cruel