Can a religious person be intellectually honest?

Everybody in the world lies. If you say you don't, you're lying. Though I take a particular delight in lies that appeal to the authority of non-existent deities.

Calling upon Yahweh as your +1 when invading an underdeveloped nation in order to get other poor, indoctrinated, saps to cheer you on? That's wildly entertaining.

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.