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The (un)Holy War is a satirical graphic novel.

The story focuses on a young man named Jonas Johnson. Jonas is the most influential televangelist in America. A young man in his late 20s from Mississippi, Jonas comes from a long line of Baptist preachers.

Jonas is a televangelist with an ultra-conservative political and religious worldview.  He is a very narrow-minded individual who seemingly knows what’s right for society. His ultra-conservative worldview was shaped by an incident in his youth that scarred him. As a child, Johnson witnessed his father’s assassination at the hands of a group of atheists. He swore on the day of his father’s death that he would prevent society’s moral decay and subsequent secularization.

Among those he holds responsible for corrupting society and its secularization are politicians, who defend and promote socially liberal values, the media, which he believes is responsible for spreading a liberal agenda, and rival televangelists, whom he believes are using religion purely as a means to make money rather than enlightening the masses.

In order to quash the left-wing liberal agenda and rival televangelists, and prevent the secularization of society, he decides to don medieval knight’s armor and embark on a crusade against all those he perceives as trying to bring down society.

He is determined to create his ideal version of society by any means necessary, including violence. In his mind, his actions are justified because he believes he is performing God’s will. It is only through the intervention of an unlikely source that Jonas finally realizes that he has strayed off the pious path, and ventured down the road to damnation.