Since most of the world is catholic, poor, and uneducated, and poor people almost always believe in a God, atheists call them Christians and use to feel intellectually superior. Among similar socio economic groups, we would be very similar. But since we all know that there have been and are many intelligent Christians, the argument that being a Christians makes you dumb is invalid.
One smart Christian disproves that. And, there's this.
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.