Karl Marx says,''Religion is the opiate of the people.''Discuss,giving specific examples?

In India people die in droves during pilgrimages to shrines thinking they will meet god :).

This is a fallacy. Religion is dealing with the contradictions and questions of life. You could see it as opposite to atheism which is an attempt to simplify those questions and eliminate contradictions.

I personally see religion as an important aspect of humanism - because humans are not 'exact' beings (as in 'exact science'). Humans have their own will, are aware of freedom, choices, mercy & forgiveness - all those 'weird' things that we do not learn from nature or science. That is what religion is dealing with.

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.