[AlanYx]

My guess would be that it's from Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), which leans on the story of Sisyphus. She never actually uses the word "war", but does use various war metaphors ("see how deep the bullet lies", etc.).

[stcredzero]

To me, it's a "Deal with God" not being at war with God. Deals with gods and deals with devils seem to have something in common, in a way which is topical to discussing OpenAI.

[AlanYx]

That's the perennial debate about the song. Does Bush want to swap places with her ex-lover, or does she want to swap places with God so that God can feel the pain of continually running up that hill? My take has always been the latter, given the Sisyphus metaphor (Sisyphus was condemned by a god to keep rolling a boulder up a hill). It's not war, no, but there is clearly some major hostility.