It is a historical accident that the desert religions took prominence. European migration and technical superiority in warfare allowed Europeans to conquer other lands and impose their desert father faith on them. If Japan had migrated first we would be a Shinto nation or if China followed the European pattern we'd be Taoists.
But to me, the message is all the same when you strip away the fundamentalist BS - to love and care for another - the message of God would spread no matter which way the winds blew the seeds of truth.
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.