There's a lot of bashing of Capitalism and subtle Praise for socialism in both the public arena and even among some in the Church in recent years.
Well, Let's Take a Look at the Two:
CAPITALISM: Actually it's a good system.
It allows Freedom of Choice in the Economic Market Place.
People can move up and down the ladder by hard work, choices and yes, sometimes what people refer to as "luck".
Q: But when people talk about those of good fortune or "luck" where in society do you not see that ever being part of an equation--from people's health to everything else?
Q: Why would expect anything different in the Economic Arena?
---Now as for "greed" being associated with the system---it isn't the system that's Flawed---it is the heart of man that is Flawed. And yes people do greedy things.
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some
among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such
persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their
work quietly and to earn their own living.
Proverbs 14:23/2 Thessalonians 3:11,12
SOCIALISM: It's very Premise is Flawed.
It is rooted in coveting what others have.
It is rooted in having the government intervene and give you other people's money or stuff.
It breeds Class Warfare and Animosity by it's very idea.
It instills a sense of entitlement.
---The fact that we have in Christendom some who want to embrace Socialism and take swipes at Capitalism is a statement in and of itself on the staleness of Christendom today.
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Deuteronomy 5:21