They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the character suddenly disappears, with the rest of the plot being affected accordingly. People will notice this happening. The character is not under any sort of control by you once you have taken them out of the story, although they will appear next to you to start with.
The same or worse, because other religions would’ve taken Its place instead
Or maybe better
Probably not as long as people are going around devoting their lives to make-believe. That never ends well.
Less bad is still better, which is a possibility that wasn’t mentioned.
I’m not one to weigh the terribleness of degrees of being a slave. I just don’t want to be one.
There are other ancient religions that are not as awful as the Abrahamic ones.
Not really