So Jesus wanted to die for their sins -- but then he came back to life. Well isn't it the thought that counts?

The concept that Jesus did for anybody's sin is absurdly wrong. Jesus did not die for anybody's sin. Jesus was murdered by the priests at the temple of Jerusalem.

Read the following passage from the book of Matthew. Matthew 26:3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 5 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.

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.