麻烦你再帮我分析下这几句话吧!As the war continued and the casualty figures

麻烦你再帮我分析下这几句话吧!
As the war continued and the casualty figures grew, he found a convinced agnostic faith that there was some divine purpose in the affairs of men, though he could not define or confine the deity within any Christian confession. A man must observe the ebb and flow of events and act on what he can discern in the tides. He had no faith that man could deflect God from his course.