Christian love produces a politics of indifference that renders existing differences irrelevant

Evidence

One is caught within the love of neighbor that makes no distinction between one neighbor and the next, that demands there be no difference between one neighbor and the next. One is caught within Christendom. This is the temporality that put an end to the pagan world. Christian love establishes a new bond between man and man, between man and neighbor. It asserts and affirms a politics of indifference. It is not that the church abolishes differences, therefore. Rather, it maintains them as irrelevant. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 479

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The move is genuinely subtle: Christian universalism does not erase difference but politically neutralizes it, making difference irrelevant while leaving it intact — a counterintuitive account of how the neighbor-love operates.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this ‘politics of indifference’ help explain modern liberal claims to colorblindness, which likewise leave inequalities intact while declaring them irrelevant?
• XREF: connects to: Christian Right political strategy rejects turning the other cheek outright. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 232