The more modern and advanced we get, the more secular and atheistic we become. Why is that?

Easier than repenting. Ignore them...TIRH not about them.

Given that the question works both ways, the answer to yours is "on the defensive side" and the answer to mine is "on the offensive side".

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.