Is this by Walt Whitman? Note the bearing on the current threads re 'organized religion' as contrasted w/ spirituality?

Relgion tries to connect us to God...but is mostly man's idea of what pleases God.

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.