Because religion doesn't do anything anymore, and refuses to change itself to meet the needs of modern life. The most they offer is to try to make modern life as bad as ancient life. (See also, ISIS) Religions were started to address certain, specific personal and social problems.
When those problems are resolved, the usefulness of religion dissolves.
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.