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Of course, we would readily admit that there are and always have been bad-actors in the church, and in fact, all of us as human beings, Christian or not, we are seriously flawed. But that is a very poor reason to reject the salvation the Lord provides, the only remedy for our flawed (sinful) condition. Often the unbeliever’s finger pointing at flawed people in the church, sinners all, is used as an excuse to reject what they desperately seek to reject for other reasons — namely their own sinfulness. And we probably all remember the childhood saying that when one finger is pointing at someone else, three fingers are pointing back at the accuser. There is also the tried and true “rubber and glue” adage to keep in mind. So, we posit this convenient rejection is very often motivated more by how someone wants to live than whether Christianity is true.

We must point out that Voltaire and other atheists in the past lambasted Christianity while safely swimming in the cultural pool of the very faith they despised. They did not taste the world that their ideas would create, and never had to suffer the repercussions of their most genial visions. And their ideas have caused massive chaos and suffering in this world.

—Don/Joy Veinot (Founders of Midwest Christian Outreach, Apologists, and authors.)

Rebellion against God is not new. Eve was persuaded to believe God was holding something back from her. She disobeyed Him and partook of the forbidden fruit. Man was commanded to multiply and spread out on the face of the earth , but in Genesis 11, they decided they would prefer to stay where they were and build a monument to ... themselves. Even though they had direct evidence of God, they chose self-worship over the worship of the Creator. The Apostle Paul outlines the process of man's rejection and God's response: 

Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans:1:24-25 [24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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The process hasn't changed much between then and now, but we have ab updated new and better scheme to persuade others to follow with a view to becoming their own saviors. In "Critical Freedom: Critical Theory and The Messianic Light," Anthony Costelllo writes: 

Karl Marx, the great prophet of liberation for modern man, considered man’s alienation inextricably connected to his labor. For Marx man was, at bottom, homo faber–man, the maker of things. Further, since man was not created by God, he was not only the maker of tools and artifacts, but, in a sense, the maker of himself. Marx didn’t mean man literally creates himself, in the strict metaphysical sense (man, for Marx, is an accident of nature), but he did mean that in the course of history man defines and redefines what he is and what he is to become.

In so doing, man first shapes himself and then subsequently labors to create the world in the way he sees fit. 

The attempt to be your own personal messiah sells well, but sadly, it leads them down the road away from the true Messiah to eternal destruction.  Those they have influenced are a mission field!

https://mailchi.mp/62ba88a928f4/spiritual-politics?e=169825fd77

This is exactly what the Bible declares: “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” The book of Genesis gives some of the details surrounding the creation of the universe and of man and all living things on Earth, including sin and death and the worldwide flood. That judgment from God through water is verified by worldwide geological evidence today—much of it in the form of marine fossils on the tops of very high mountains.