The enemy fuses theological love-object and political target into one problem

Evidence

We go to war, then, with the enemies, hostis or inimicus, each divided between a theological failure to think these peculiar love objects and the political and strategic obligation to fight (and even hate) them. With Aquinas, the question of the enemy becomes thoroughly sedimented as a theologico-political question, as the question of the theologico-political. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 199

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a single word (enemy/hostis) still lets modern states fuse military targets with moral absolutes.
• XREF: connects to: Superconspiracy theories can fuse political plots with theology to enlarge the plot’s scale — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 299