When electricity is flowing through a wire, what causes an individual electron to move from one atom to the next atom?

Depends on whom you mean by "us". Science is moving ahead, religion notwithstanding. We will never answer all the questions about our existence and the universe; we'll just keep getting closer and closer.

Religion stands in the way of our moral progress as a society. We tend to give far too much credence to the often grotesque moral opinions of the religious, allowing them to shut down the conversation with wild assertions. But I think we're improving on that front.

Secular progress and secular values have beaten Judaism and Christianity into near-submission. Islam too, in spite of the fundamentalists. There are millions and millions of people who have brought their goodness to Islam.

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.