When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.
A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.