[Hieronymus]

Ideally, those who follow Christ are motivated primarily by neither fear nor greed, but by the Love of God, which in Latin is termed “caritas” and often translated into English as Charity—a concept related to but distinct from almsgiving, which in English may also be called charity, and, it seems, socialism.

I believe that there is a major confusion of theological terms going on here.

[cuban leaf]

...which in English may also be called charity, and, it seems, socialism.

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Charity is where one voluntarily gives of the fruit of their labor to help others. Socialism is where the government redistibutes the wealth of those that give to the government to whom it sees fit. And the giving to the government is not voluntary. The government collects via the power of the gun. that short circuits the whole law of giving and receiving as described in the bible.

And I did not say the choices were fear and greed. They are fear of a negative outcome vs desire for a positive outcome. But many interpret the latter, when judging the motives of others, as greed.