Bryan Fischer kicked off his radio program today with a reading from the Book of Deuteronomy which, he claimed, proves that God supports a flat tax.

Echoing the sorts of claims that we routinely hear from David Barton, Fischer read from Deuteronomy 14, in which God instructed the Israelites to “be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year,” citing it as evidence that “God believes in a flat tax.”

“That’s what a tithe is, it’s a tax,” Fischer said. “It’s a tax on the labor of your hands, it’s a tax on the fruit of your labor. It’s a tax on the grapes that you produce, the grain that you harvest, the wine that you produce, the oil that your olive trees produce. It’s a ten percent tax. It was a flat tax”: