If we had to have a land continually in gospel ignorance. But who says it has to be?
Socialism represents a grand concept wrenched completely out of the realm in which God wanted it to exist. Churches, giving voluntarily in holiness and the name of the gospel. God is funny that way; the more you give (in that context) the more you get. And money is the least of it.
Socialism is great, until you actually try it.