Individualists are more likely to be controlling because religious people tend to delegate that to their leaders. It is a s true of individual skeptics of religion as it is individualistic Christians. Abuse is a misuse of power.
Power in religions exercised properly enable people. Power misused serves the holder of the power.
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.