[The Urban Sombrero]

Right, only know-nothings from among the politically elite class can be President. :please: That was the problem with the present administration as a virtual coronation took place for our first black President. Meeting the left wing requirements for social engineering was the priority, so enter one Barack Obama. An ideologue's ideologue and an academic whose credential has yet to be validated. The fact that he was lacking in any practical world experience as far as business or even working for a business, national defense, state sovereignty, or a vague familiarity with the concept of serving the common good, has been overlooked and argued away and tremendous loss has overwhelmed this nation as the result. Your dissing of Washington and his holdings while serving as this nation's first President is nothing if not the typical revisionist torture of the record. In a word it's a pack of lies. But just to prove that no fact be it historical or present is too impactful to be summarily ignored by the left, we saw that as recently as yesterday they were still hopeful by some further miracle of deceit that they could still bestow another liberal coronation upon one Hillary Clinton.

As fate would have it, I happen to have an educational background in history. Any historian will tell you that one has to be wary of a thing called a textbook. The contents of most modern editions are filled with the surmisings of the revisionist. So the fact that you can find support from those who lied to you in the first place hardly cuts much ice with me.

You are a dogged left wing apologist and a denier of the faith. Never do you shrink back from an opportunity to deny the power and the purview of God's unmistakable influence on the founding of this nation. Even if that means avowing that for which there exists no proof in the record. I mean, who but a progressive liberal revisionist could deny plain English? I posted the record, you post only the guileful propaganda and protestations of a man who cannot accept the truth.

The larger point you made with regard to your Sombrable, was to point out that giving to the poor is some kind of redemptive work. Which of course is not the case, though it is a characteristic of the true Church. But since you alluded to parables one does come to mind here;
Matthew 13:24-30 (KJV)
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Works are laudable but they do not necessarily lead to salvation.

Faith without works is dead; works without faith is secular.

The larger point is that the rich young ruler, though he saw in Christ something of interest, was so clutched by his wealth and great possessions, by "lust of the eye" and "pride of life" that he walked away sorrowful. One hopes that our President Elect is not similarly clutched, thereby endangering the nation because he puts his own interests, and the interests of the billionaire class as paramount.

It is very odd to me that you would posit as a "denier of the faith" one who believes in essential liberty and freedom of conscience. I fear your refusal to make fine distinctions renders you of the spirit that participated in the Salem Witch trials and other such abominations which history records in defense of "purity of faith" and "orthodoxy."