I am a skeptical reader/listener, too. Yet, I have found very sound discussion from Professor John Lennox whose apologetical talks on YouTube I find quite refreshing, and subjects you mentioned in your essay are titles in his series of lectures.

I have no clue whatsoever about what this quote means: “Based on what does a skeptic say that the world is full of suffering and evil?” Color me clueless, but it just seems incoherent and therefore nonsensical to me and prevents me from any commenting.

Nevertheless, I have become tired of having to point out that hypocrisy is not limited to people who call themselves "Christians."

"Christian Nationalists" are not religious but a political organization just like the Nazis (called the National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

In this quote from your writing, I find a clue to what I think is the root dynamic of the problem precipitating deconstruction. People, perhaps including people as skeptical as you, have misplaced their trust Paternalistically in people in leadership roles when they shoul only be putting their faith in God, Jesus, and the Bible! "In any case, a huge reason why people want to step away from the church or deconstruct their faith is that they have faced trauma from or related to someone who was a Christian."

I am both frustrated and fatigued by the confusion you discussed in your #2. The Bible truly is a written history. It is not a Scientific thesis, but if read correctly, does not conflict with Science. Noah's Flood story has a parallel in Babylonian literature and a recent geological theory syas there was a flood resulting from a surge of water from a sea created by ice melt from the Ice Age, and one misunderstanding is reading from our modern perspective of Earth, but their whole earth was limited to the one region we now call the Middle East, and it certainly seemed to those people that it was the entire world and again, it was the only world that they knew.

Finally, putting everybody into one box is like structural racism. It puts a lot of holes in one's Swiss cheese. Criticizing error is easy and isn't really very productive, but again, people need to turn that mirror around.