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Andrew Murray
We can take our time, we don't have to hurry Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray Hand on the bible, no perjury to the jury Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray
My great great great grandfather was a Scottish Presbyterian He traveled to South Africa to settle and get married in The Transvaal, which was an Afrikaner area That Dutch Reform Christian folk were farming dairy in My great great great grandfather Andrew Murray was a minister 1822 he emigrated to begin his work Preaching sermons every Sunday for the sons and daughters Of the Boer people, the cattle-farming Afrikaners Calvinism was the religion, he did the honours David Livingstone was one of his visiting doctors He went to Holland first to learn the tongue of the Netherlands He needed it to tend his flock and be a better Reverend Mooi! Maria Stegmann was his 16 year old wife & soon they had a couple of kids, I'm talkin' plural Nice! Andrew junior was a writer He wrote The Prayer Life, Abide in Christ and other fine works Two hundred and forty total books of Christian piety Surrender and devotion, obedience and sobriety I come from good good Scottish protestant stock My ancestors loved that divine providence talk My ancestors, well they weren't exactly rational Except that natural selection trades in one capital Surviving descendants, raw genetic self-interest And that's different from individual forms of selfishness Andrew Murray could've set up shop to sell fishnets on the Scottish coast, but he was just too religious So instead he was a fishermen of men like the apostles He read his gospels and had as many kids as possible But we can take our time, we don't have to hurry Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray Hand on the bible, no perjury to the jury Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray
So if I'm livin' and my cousins are livin' Maybe there's something more to my great grandfather's religion Than meets the naked eye, 'cause they spread the word of Christ And they married fertile wives and their children's children thrived And I bet they'd probably tell you they did it for Jesus' sake and Not because the love of Jesus leads to baby-makin' But I'm tryin' to see how these religions came to be And that's different from the reason people say they believe 'Cause if beliefs can motivate you to an action that's adaptive There's no reason those beliefs need to be factually accurate In fact, if they can motivate you better with distractions From reality, well we would call that 'practically accurate' And pragmatism when you're talkin' natural selection Just means: 'Whatever leads to leavin' plentiful descendants' That's the 'ultimate cause' and to emphasize the difference The 'proximate cause' is in emotional mechanisms And yes, participation in a church can bring some benefits Mutual collectivist assistance and the rest of it The circling of wagons and defence of all your brethren The measurable acceptance and love and trust and togetherness Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com That comes from bein' part of somethin' bigger than yourself If you need to find community, hey, religion can help But I've got my own community, some hippie Canadians Some hip-hop heads and some entertainers and atheists And writers and some scientists and profs at some colleges And yeah, religious people seem to be outbreeding all of us
But we can take our time, we don't have to hurry Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray Hand on the bible, no perjury to the jury Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray
I went down to South Africa to meet my Christians cousins And whoa! I've got dozens to the power of dozens Explosive exponential growth, I'm talkin' hundreds And hundreds, my cousin Teo did the sums and number crunchin' And yeah, Andrew Murray's doin' okay genetically Let me break it down for you geometrically Andrew and his teenaged wife Maria Stegmann Had sixteen children and one of them had sixteen children And the rest had nine or ten, and some died at a young age But their surviving grandchildren numbered a hundred and eight And every single one of his sons became ministers In the church, and every one of his daughters married ministers And it worked, Andrew Murray had eight thousand descendants Of which five thousand are now currently livin' Of which only one is kickin' raps about religion And that, ladies and gentlemen, is natural selection So here's a definition of religion: it's an evolved mechanism for converting resources into descendants Evolved via culture through religious competitions And evolved in our mental architecture that's intrinsic Cause our minds are designed to get religious in the right conditions Especially when things are fragile and your life is threatened See, Andrew Murray preached a sermon every Sunday But I be preachin' on stages myself so I can't complain I'm just glad my sister and my women cousins Aren't expected to have babies by the dozens and dozens I mean, Maria Stegmann could've had a career I guess she was born in the wrong year, poor dear Well her great great great great granddaughter will be brought up religion free Let's see if my baby makes her decisions differently I got a preacher's blood, but with a science brain So let's take this godless revival to a higher plain I got a preacher's blood, but with a science brain So let's take this godless revival to a higher plain!
But we can take our time, we don't have to hurry Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray Hand on the bible, no perjury to the jury Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray
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