Whats funny to me is that the muslims in France are pissed off for having a law impose anything against their religion, yet if you travel to an Islamic majority country, you can easily find your hand cut off or eye gouged out for ignoring THEIR laws. Yet more hypocritical garbage from a religious cult.
You ask about Organised Religion, well lets change it a bit, to just Organisation. Any Organisation will when it becomes big enough or powerful enough will use its resources to ask or demand that the state makes allowances for its members and Religion is no different, in fact Religion is probably the most potent force know to man that does this. Now whether this is right or whether it is wrong, very much depends on what they want.
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.