Atheists: Did you go through a goth phase like my atheist, lesbian, obese daughter Mary did...?

Some Buddhist writings (along with those of other Eastern religions like Hinduism) were already widely available in English translation by the mid-19th century. Ms. Eddy herself had read some of these books and quoted from them in her earlier writings.

Not surprisingly, their ideas influenced her and the "Christian Science" she founded. "The association of Christian Science with Eastern religion would seem to have had some basis in Mrs Eddy's own writings. For in some early editions of Science and Health she had quoted from and commented favorably upon a few Hindu and Buddhist texts.

She was a mystic. Christian mysticism should be investigated before any Christian considers Buddhism. The Eastern Orthodox preserve and practice the teaching of the earliest Christian Mystics best.

Catholics may investigate what is preserved in Tradition.

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.