I think you have it right but at his point in history you can trust Christianity because of what you can verify. In bitcoin, I trust the balance in my wallet because my node has verified all those past transactions. I have faith that I’ll be able to spend them in the future. In my Christian faith I trust that Christ’s sacrifice is sufficient verified by the historical record of the scriptures and and the testimony of my predecessors. That historical record and the accuracy of the scriptures is what people like Lee Strobel looked into as a sceptic who changed his mind resulting in his book. Of course they’re not exactly the same, but I don’t consider my Christian faith “trust me bro” in the sense that I believe simply cause somebody said I should. I’ve spent many more hours examining my faith than I have bitcoin and I’ve spent a LOT on bitcoin. If I misunderstood your perspective I apologize I appreciate the conversation.

Yes, and unfortunately that kind of “cheap grace” version of Christianity became common in the last century, and has turned away a lot of honest truth seekers, especially young men. It was certainly promoted though, but so was Keynesian economics and a gender spectrum. I think the new atheist critiques were apt to reject such silly versions of Christianity, the problem of course is that’s not historic Christianity but a modern secular version. The deeper issue is that secularism is producing nothing but chaos and nihilism, and its core presuppositions are incompatible with Christianity. And of course our entire civilization and morality (such as universal human rights) is built on Christian presuppositions (this points back to Nietzsche’s famous death of God criticism, accurately predicting the atrocities of the 20th century)