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Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators PRODUCTIVE CHRISTIANS IN AN AGE OF GUILT-MANIPULA~RS Other books by David Chilton Paradise Restored: A Biblical Thology of Dominion, 1985 l%e Days of Vmgeance: An Exposition of Revelation, 1986 7%e Great Tribulation, 1987 PRODUCTIVE CHRISTIANS IN AN AGE OF GUILT-MANIPULATORS A Biblical Response to Ronald J. Sider David Chilton Institute for Christian Economics Tyler, Texas Copyright @ 1981 Institute for Christian Economics Second Edition, Reutie~ Ju~ 1982 Z%’rd Edition, Revised Ma~ 1985 Fourth Printing, Aptil, 1986 F~th Printing, Septembq 1990 Published by The Institute for Christian Economics, P.O. Box 8000, Tyler, Texas 75711 ~pesetting by Z$obum Press, PO. Box 2459, Reston, K4 22090 Cover art 02s@ed by George Grant Artwork by R(ZTUJ Rogers Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chilton, David. Productive Christians in an age of guilt-manipulators : a biblical response to Ronald J. Sider I David Chilton. - 3rd ed., rev. P. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-930464-38-9 (alk. paper) :$25.00. – ISBN 0-930464-04-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) :$12.50 1. Sider, Ronald J. Rich Christians in an age of hunger. 2. Hunger– Religious aspects- Chrktianity. 3. Wealth – Religious aspects - Christianity. 4. Economics– Religious aspects- Christianity. 5. Food supply– Religious aspects– Christianity. 6. Simplicity– Religious aspects-Christianity. 7. Economics in the Bible. 8. Dominion theology. 9. Socialism and Christianity. I. Title. BR115.H86S53 1990 261.8’5–dc20 90-44055 CIP To P. T. Bauer TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword, by Gary North. .ix Preface . .. xi Introduction . .. 1 PART I – Biblical Law and the Sider Thesis 1. Biblical Law and Christian Economics . ...19 2. God’s Law and the Poor . ...45 3. The Exodus as a Liberation Movement . ...69 4. Is God on the Side of the Poor? . ...79 5. The Third World. 87 6. Foreign Aid. 99 7. 0ver population . ...113 8. The Law and the Profits . ...123 9. Advertising andthe Slave Mentality . .133 10. Cultural Bone Rot. 139 11. The Jubilee Principle. 153 12. The Goal of Equality. .165 13. Statism. 177 14. The Prophetic Message. 193 15. Preparing the Church for Slavery . .2O5 PART II –The Future of Poverty 16. The Basis for Economic Growth . ...217 17. The Conquest of Poverty. ...-229 Appendix 1 –Deja Vu-A Romp Through Ronald Sider’s Second Edition . .249 Appendix 2- Socialism, The Anabaptist Heresy . ...321 Appendix 3 –The Missing Blueprints –A Parable . 343 vii . Vlll Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators Appendix 4 — The Background of “Productive Christians,” by Gary North . ...347 Appendix 5 – Religious Repression in Ethiopia, by Archbishop Abba Mathias . ...367 Glossary. .377 Bibliography . ...399 Scripture Index . ...413 Subject Index . ...423 What Is the ICE? . ...433 FOREWORD by Gary North What you are about to read is one of the most devastating polemical books I have ever read. Bach edition gets better, mean- ing tougher for Ronald J. Sider to deal with. I will put it even more boldly: the first edition was impossible for Sider to deal with, given his views about God, man, law, and the authority of the Bible. The second edition meant that Chilton was not going away. The third edition means that the Sider phenomenon, as an intellectual phenomenon, is dead. Dr. Sider has recently treated us to a revised edition of R&h C&zMans in an Age of Hunger. In revising his book, he violated one of the fundamental principles of life: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” The first and second editions of Chilton’s Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators exposed to anyone who cared to consider it just how deep” Dr. Sider had already dug him- self in. With his revised edition, Dr. Sider has now gone at least thirty feet deeper, leaving an even more massive pile of error all around the rim of hls ideological chasm. Chdton just stood at the top and shoveled it back down on the head of our hapless pro- fessor. I think it is stie to say that there will be no thiid edhion of Rich Christians. But I hope there will be. When Ron Sider revised his book, and deliberately refhsed to reply to Chilton’s book, or even give it a footnote, he paid Chilton the highest of all academic compliments. He admitted implicitly that he was theologically and intellectually incapable of respond- ing to any of Chdton’s arguments, let alone the whole book. It meant that he chose to pretend that Chilton’s book had not gone through two edhions, and was not being read by thousands of ix x Produdive Chr&iuns in an Age of Guilt-Mani@Mors people, including a growing number of disillusioned former fol- lowers of Ronald J. Sider. In short, it meant that Ron Sider has lost the debate with Chihon, and has lost it so badly that he does not dare even to let his followers know of the existence of Chilton’s book. Qpite frankly, if I had been devasted as thoroughly as Dr. Sider was, I would do what he did: play “let’s pretend he isn’t there; maybe he will go away.” No, come to think of it, I wouldn’t. Instead, I would repent before God for the evils that I had pro- moted in God’s name. I would write a retraction of everything I had previously written. I would resign fmm my teaching position. Then I would order my publisher not to sell any more of my books. I would, impossible, buy up the remaining copies and burn them. How would I assess the intellectual career of Ron Sider at this point? I can do no better than to cite the classic phrase of that legendary actor-scholar-theologian, “Mr. T: by which he described his opponent’s chances in the boxing movie, “Rocky 1117 Ron Si&r k dead meat. This book is a response to Ronald Sider’s Rtih Chn3tzizm in m Age of Hunger (1977). First published in 1981, Productive Christian-s went into a second, slightly revised edition in 1982. We had planned simply to keep the revised edition in print as long as there was suf- ficient demand; providentially, however, just as we were about to order another printing, Dr. Sider came out with a second edition of his own (1984), which differs at significant points from the first book (the type was also completely reset, so that the page numbers are different as well), The reprinting of Productive C/wis- tzizns thus presented a problem: Should it deal with the fist or sec- ond edition of Sideds work? Sider’s 1977 edition is, in my opinion, by fw the strongest; the 1984 edition is considerably watered- -down. Moreover, there are still plenty of copies of the 1977 book floating around: 140,000 of them were sold, while fewer than 4,000 copies of the second book were sold in the first year of its publication. It seems clear that Sideis 1977 edition has had a heavier impact on our culture. This edition of Productive C/wistzi.ms, therefore, is a response to both books. The main text is virtually unchanged, except for cor- rections and some additional material in the chapter on the “ Jubilee. The footnotes refer to Sider’s 1977 book, with references to the 1984 book in brackets.1 My tist appendix then specifically responds to Sider’s second edition. My main problem in writing the appendix was the task of keeping it down to a manageable length. There has been a verita- 1. Occasionally, the wording of Side#s 1984 edition is slightly diEerent i%om the original. Where this has occurred, or where I am referring the reader to a similar passage in the 1984 work, the page number in brackets is preceded by “cf.” xi xii Productive Chtitians in an Age of Guilt-Manipu”kators ble ‘information explosion” in recent years supporting my fkee- market thesis and refuting Sider’s socialistic position. It has been almost impossible to keep up with the growing mountain of ma- terial chronicling the rapidly increasing failures of socialism in every area, and demonstrating the superiority of the unhampered market order in meeting the needs of the masses. (To see what I mean, go to my footnotes and bibliography and count the number of books published since 1981, when my iirst edition was pub- lished.) The material is so vast that I easily could have written another complete book refiting Sider, using this new information alone. In fact, it can fairly be said that Appendix 1 could not have been written until now. One of the most important of these new works is Charles Mur- ra?s Losing Ground: Amerzian Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Basic Books, 1984), which conclusively demonstrates that the very policies which Ronald Sider advocates have actwdly increased poverty and suffering in America. Murray’s landmark work is an outstanding indictment of our misguided welfare policies. In this area, as in so many others, humanism has shown itself to be hopelessly bank- rupt. Our national social policy must return to the biblical blue- prints. There is no other choice left. The same is true for policy in the so-called “Third Worldn; there, too, the programs (such as “land reform”) proposed by Dr. Sider have proved to be colossal failures. The most blatant recent example, certainly, is the famine in Ethiopia, which lint received widespread attention in the fall of 1984. While some have attemp- ted to blame capitalism and the West for this terrible mass starva- tion, the fact is that Ethiopia is virtually a textbook case of what unbridled socialism can accomplish.
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