When your best friend dies, do you ever bow and meditate during a moment of silence for a deceased friend?

Don't quite agree. In reality, I think there are good and bad among them--just as with any other category of human being. I think some of them are genuinely good people--and are drawn to the priesthood because they love other human beings, and want to be heavily involved with people and to help them.

They enjoy ministering, trying to counsel people, comfort them in time of need, and being a leader in a community. Others however, want to control people, are obsessed with the private lives of their "flock", have issues with sex, are looking for opportunities to manipulate and molest people and children, and some are fanatical in their religion and are obsessed with it. Also some are people who would be dysfunctional in a normal productive job.

And a few are charlatans trying to get rich and fleece their flocks. And of course, there are people who run the whole range in-between. Human beings are complicated, and although I don't believe in gods and think that religion is totally bunk--I've encountered enough priests to know that although they follow and promote belief systems that are unfounded, this doesn't mean they are bad people.

Everyone deserves to be judged as an individual, and based mainly on their actions.

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.