[Aquila]

The point is that all these modern day "tithe advocates" have romanticized the doctrine of the tithe and divorced it from it's history... because there isn't any history of a tithe being required of a believer for nearly the first 400 to 500 years of Christianity. In fact, history shows that until the church gained political points with local governments, every effort of councils to institute a tithe were vehemently rejected.

And where there is history of a required tithe (beginning in the Middle Ages) we see the church using political savvy to make it happen and then using excommunication and brute force to enforce it. In fact, the overthrow of the tithe features prominently throughout the Revolutionary period. I praise God that my people of beloved Ireland abolished the tithe in 1871.

Historically speaking, the tithe doctrine was often a brutal and oppressive doctrine.