Lurker here, just wanted to comment on your second point to say I agree as a Christian. Although Sanger has clearly delved intellectually into becoming a theist

Lurker here, just wanted to comment on your second point to say I agree as a Christian. Although Sanger has clearly delved intellectually into becoming a theist as described here, his conversion to Christianity as a specific religion appears less thorough as detailed in this blog. Though I find various theistic arguments mentioned by the essay to be persuasive, I personally was/am more gripped by the historical arguments put forward for the reliability of the Gospels and Jesus' resurrection, so it was a bit surprising to find no mention of such arguments in this blog. As a side, to say Christianity is fraudulent if it's false is rather harsh, as fraud indicates intentional deception or malice. Yet skeptical positions that attribute deception or malice to Jesus' disciples are quite rare due to how difficult they are to defend. So if Christianity is false, it would most likely have been an honest mistake by the early Christians rather than an intentional deception, at least in my estimate.