I think today people are becoming far too comfortable making emotionally motivated positive assertions which cannot be substantiated. Every day I hear people on TV and the radio insisting that this or that liberal politician is not just liberal, but a Marxist, or a socialist, or a communist, and so on. It is not enough that they are liberal, one must now exaggerate and ascribe numerous and much more dramatic sounding labels to them which rarely if ever apply. What people don’t consider is how this weakens the meanings of the words. For instance, after hearing our current quite liberal president called a communist for years, even though 90% of his policies are almost identical to something Republicans wanted just a few years ago, people will no longer be shocked when a real Marxist stands up and runs for office. They will associate that label with mere liberals. And, for my money, the same situation applies with Marx himself in this regard. Satanism is not just to be unmoved by Christian values, or even to be opposed to them actively, but is rather a system of worship or religious activity motivated by devotion to the Devil himself. Unless somebody can demonstrate that Karl Marx had an altar to the Devil in his basement this sounds like just more exaggeration.
