“The answer is and always was, pure gospel. The love of God poured out so as to overwhelm the hate of Satan.”
Maybe so, but when you are dealing with Atheist/Marxists, they are not likely to share your enthusiasm for the gospel and therein lies your problem.
At the same time we err to peg a particular group of unbelievers who, sight unseen, we condemn to eternal hopelessness. Atheists are a mixed bag and so are those who profess Marxism. Having wallowed in either one does not mean the unforgivable sin.
If you talk to actual ex-atheists and ex-marxists, odds are that it is some stellar Christian or Christians in their lives that was the bible they was able to read a convincing story from, when they didn’t read the one on paper.
So please be careful yourself about wallowing into the realm of excuses. Caution yes, excuses never!
was able => were able (nit pick)
Also keep in mind, that not all the habitually poor even ARE marxist or atheist.
However they may be in spiritual doldrums. And careful ministry can help that a great deal, to turn bummer into hallelujah (no, Christianity does not say Thou Shalt Pull Thyself Up By Thine Own Bootstraps). Where are the “Mother Teresas” of American slumdom? Again if you aren’t one or trying to help one with organization, donations, and/or even prayers, is it for the sake of mere excuses, of self fulfilling prophecies of doom?