There was a lot of paranoia at the time with anything "satanic" and in fact, Satanism was a bit of a fad at the time. Suddenly, every rock song was suspected of having reversed messages in it and/or responsible for suicides. Like someone mentioned, just having a picture of a "demon" on a book gave people the wrong idea. The fact that the demons were the bad guys we were all trying to defeat was lost on them. Luckily, it was a small number of people frazzled by this stuff but unfortunately, they were given plenty of media attention from shows like 20/20, etc.


It's called religious tolerance. Our country was founded on it. I'm more amazed that multi-cultural folks, or at least people from multi-cultural countries, are still allowed to be a bigot about religion and not called a bigot by their peers.