As far as "holy war" goes...
Read up on some of Bush 'n Co.'s revelationist nonsense. THEY see it as a holy war, even if they're not publicly calling it that...
God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
