Religion can be used as a tool but it is not the only one. In North Korea you have a man that is worshiped as if he was a god. Even if religion went away despots would would still find a way.

Germany's Positive Christianity is different from Christianity.

Research the German Faith Movement and Jakob Wilhelm. That might change your mind. The fascist Positive Christianity was used to slowly fade from worshiping God to total obedience to the fatherland. Such is the way of fascism.

And aside from language changes, the Bible has also been edited hundreds of times and had about a dozen possible books taken out of it by the Catholic Church in an effort to censor it.

Those books were not taken out...the Bible as we know it was assembled from the many manuscripts which were the gospel according to (insert name here) during the time in which Christianity was being persecuted by the Romans and people like me were being killed for not denying our faith. They chose the most cohesive gospels to spread among the Christians help unify them and grant more solidity to the faith. In a time where being a Christian was such a bad thing you needed as much foundation and ground to stand on as you could get.

Between being printed in Latin or English I believe that would be a translation, not an alteration. If you wish to use this assertion then you can say the same for the Quran as it is available in English as well.

Yes, Christianity survived for quite some time without a Bible. The gospel was orated and passed from one person to another for quite some time. In history this is quite common for many events. Even without the Bible the gospel would still be spread.

One fringe notion in my mind (I say notion because I've never given it much thought and have absolutely no evidence to back it up) is that maybe when the angels that followed Lucifer were cast down they were given a chance to redeem themselves? Maybe their actions made it impossible to exist in heaven due to their (our?) sin

I know it hurts, especially if you have been friends with them for a good while. Just keep your head up and it will get better.

It's best to take most things online with a grain of salt. Some people will do anything to get under your skin. If someone stabs you in the back then they really wasn't your friend at all then.

What about the unborn victims of violence act? I think that makes for an interesting argument. According to that law the fetus is a living person regardless of their stage of development.