If Jesus' bodily remains were found, then Christianity as it began and continued was based on a mistake, or (more strongly) a lie.

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I'm not an expert on this. But a lot depends on the motivation and inner spirituality of what's going on.

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My faith tradition (ordinary Christianity) doesn't really try to explain the origin of evil either in general or in particular awful situations. Part of believing in a good Creator God, as Christians do, is to believe that evil is essentially absurd, irrational, a denial of the goodness and meaningfulness of creation -- which is of course all the more graphically the case when faced with multiple, random murder.

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The question, I'm afraid, is too vague to answer. It's like asking 'is New York a hot city?' -- to which the answer will depend on whether you visit in February or July.

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In classic Christian teaching God's free offer of forgiveness always stands, but to accept forgiveness means, well, accepting forgiveness. It doesn't mean hearing the word of forgiveness and saying, in effect, 'well, that's OK, because actually there wasn't anything to forgive'. You can't pretend to accept forgiveness and turn forgiveness, as you do so, into 'tolerance' or 'well, it didn't matter that much.'

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Well, sorry, as a Brit I simply can't answer this one.

But perhaps American readers would like to know that Mormonism certainly hasn't entered the mainstream of British religion and most Brits pretty certainly would only have the sketchiest idea of what it is, where it is, what it believes or does.

People in the UK are far, far less interested in religion as such all round than they are in the U.S.A. Why that should be so is itself a very interesting question but it's not the one you asked!