Among the objections skeptics raise about Christianity is that the church is filled with hypocrites. Therefore, Christians are no different from unbelievers. The logic then leads people to conclude that unbelievers can live a moral life without the need of transformation that comes from the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
A well known atheist, Christopher Hitchens, describes it as such in his book God Is Not Great :
"We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true – that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow."
Certainly, hypocrisy is present in the church today. There's no denying that fact. However, the argument set forth by skeptics and by many misled, disillusioned Christians who buy this message is set on false assumptions and wrong understanding of the theology of Christ's redemption.
How? Read RC Sproul's TableTalk article : Is the Church Full of Hypocrites?
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