A loving God provides for us by sacrificing his own flesh and blood for your eternal salvation. God is righteous, when man sinned he seaparated himself from righteous God who created and sustains his life, this separation from God is death. This is the reason the Son became flesh to overcome temptation, sin and death as a man under the law that through his righteousness, atonement and resurrection you can be made new and righteously joined to God which is eternal life.
No one really knows if He actually does send atheist to hell, or anyone else for that matter. The bible is full of warnings and speaks of judgment, but then the bible also speaks of love and forgiveness. (If you'd consider being an atheist a sin.) If you read the Old Testament carefully, you will notice that it is more important to act wisely and live a righteous life, than it is to speak of God or believing in him.
Therefore, I think that it doesn't matter whether you hold yourself to be one or the other; just do right by other people - that should just about do it.
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.