Religion isn't just weird, it is Reblion against God and it is Man Made and it is also Poison from the Devil. Your mom is right. I don't know much about the old testament but there is a good reason why God commanded his people to kill those people.
They were wicked, filled with sins, had their own God's and Idols and rebelled against God and rejected him. God gave them many, many and many chances to turn away from their sins and praise God and surrender to God or suffer the consequences. They didn't listen to God's people or God and continued to live in their wicked sins and Idolized statues and other dead false God's.
So God unleashed his wrath on them. God isn't just a Holy God, he is also a Righteouss and Just God. Sin can not go unpunish nor continue.
God warned them many times but they didn't listen to him. They had it coming. Now they are with their false dead God's.
I hope you don't end up in the same place where they are. Repen and make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior today! He loves you and your family!
He died and rose from the grave for your sins to be forgivened and washed away! You will have everlasting life and you will not perish in Hell if you trust in Jesus. God bless.
All glory be to God. I encourage you to study the Bible. Try Bible .com.
And Biblos .com.
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.