When the religious prejudice of the tag "AD" is swapped out for "CE," as in the bizarre and three times false statement which is these days a common place, the Battle of Hastings, AD 1066. A battle which did not take place in Hastings, but six miles away in a known location and was recorded properly in several chronicles, and which, even when measured by the year of the supposed Birth of Christ when measured against the reign of Augustus is flatly false as was the calendar involved and which in addition forces the mind to revolve around a peculiar moment when accounted for by a peculiar system of accounting for time. Now, in this transformation to CE, has one merely dug a ditch into a deeper shadow where one is all the more blind to commanding one's attention to a certain scope of time? And giving it a cosmic locus?
The old Roman meaning of the religione officii , or bounded duty was modified by the theological intervention into the received tradition. Today the notion of sacred duty is commonplace with political offices just as it always was. But, the duties are produced not by traditional customs as with the Romans, and not by theologians as in the 16th century wars. But, rather, by politicians and academics, as in the wars or "interventions" of the supposed universal code of human beings and their rights. However, this is only called universal. And in reality is not even generally accepted. Catholicism, it must be remembered, meant first of all the universal. And the Romans had universal ambitions as latter laid down in the little tract by a distant son in Dante.