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Really, all one has to do is do some historical research on the history of tithing through the ages to see how tithing was rejected time and time again until the institutional church partnered with the states to force this religious tax on the people. After the Protestant Reformation, some churches continued to partner with government to receive tithes. As the separation of church and state took hold, churches took the practice as a private religious practice and so we have tithing as it is understood today.

Think about it... imagine living as a poor land owner struggling to make it by and hearing how the local land baron was partnering with the diocese in order to require a "tithe" of all your land, income, crops, and livestock. The tithe wasn't seen as a blessing down through history... unless you were a Catholic Bishop or some class of royalty that the church paid in order to have a right to enforce the tithe with brute force if necessary.