You are just young & inexperienced. They have not done a good job of educating. Children need to make the transition with GOD.
They have to get over the Santa Claus idea. GOD is far more than what kids think. Tell your parents about your struggle.
It may be time to join a Youth Group at church.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.