Christianity cannot distinguish theological from political war, while Judaism regards all wars as political

Evidence

Christianity cannot know whether a war is theological or political. The distinction, for it, is undecidable (“they cannot know at all”). For Judaism, on the other hand, all wars are political. “Whatever wars [the Jewish people] experiences are purely political wars” (33r/G368). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the political-theology thread in Carl Schmitt and to the reader’s broader interest in how religious identity maps onto political categories.