| Hey Pastor you know it’s hard for me when you quote Puritans
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| Oh, the precious Puritans
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| Have you not noticed our facial expressions?
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| One of bewilderment, and heartbreak, like «Not you too, Pastor»
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| You know they were chaplains on slave ships, right?
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| Would you quote Columbus to Cherokees?
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| Would you quote Cortez to Aztecs, even if they theology was good?
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| It just sings a blind privilege, wouldn’t you agree?
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| Your precious Puritans
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| They looked my onyx and bronze skinned forefathers in they face
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| Their polytheistic, God-hating face
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| Their shackled, diseased, imprisoned, face
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| And taught a Gospel that said that God had multiple images in mind when He
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| created us in it
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| Therefore destined salvation contains a contentment
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| In the stage for which they were given
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| Which is to be owned by your forefather’s superior, image bearing face
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| Says your precious Puritans
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| And my anger towards this teaching screams of an immature doctrine
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| And a misunderstanding of the Gospel
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| I should be content in this stage, right?
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| Isn’t that what Paul taught, according to your precious Puritans?
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| Oh you get it, but you don’t get it
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| Oh that we can go back to an America that once were
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| Founded on Christian values
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| They don’t build preachers like they used to
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| Oh the richness of their revelation
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| It must be nice to not have to consider race
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| It must be nice to have time to contemplate the stars
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| Pastor, your color-less rhetoric is a cop out
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| You see my skin, and I see yours
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| And they are beautiful, fearfully and wonderfully, divinely designed
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| Uniqueness
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| Shouldn’t we celebrate that rather than act like it ain’t there?
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| I get it
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| Your Puritans got it, but
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| How come the things the Holy Spirit showed them
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| In the Valley of Vision
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| Didn’t compel them to knock on they neighbor’s door
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| And say «you can’t own people!»
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| Your precious puritans were not perfect
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| You romanticize them as if they were inerrant
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| As if the skeletons in they closet was pardoned due to they hard work and
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| tobacco growth
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| As if abolitionists were not racists and just pro-union
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| As if God only spoke to white boys with epic beards
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| You know Jesus didn’t really look like them paintings
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| That was just Michaelangelo’s boyfriend
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| Your precious Puritans
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| Oh they got it but they don’t get it
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| There’s not one generation of believers that has figured out the marriage
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| between proper doctrine and action
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| Don’t pedestal these people
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| Your precious Puritan’s partners purchased people
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| Why would you quote them?
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| Step away
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| Think of the congregation that quotes you
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| Are you inerrant?
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| Trust me, I know the feeling
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| Same feeling I get when people quote me like if they only knew
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| See I get it, but I don’t get it, huh
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| Ask my wife
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| And it bothers me when you quote Puritans, if I’m honest
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| For the same reason it bothers me when people quote me
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| They precious Propaganda
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| So I guess it’s true that God really does use crooked sticks
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| To make straight lines
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| Just like your precious Puritans |