Three years ago Tom Hirschman, a special education teacher at Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, was in the running for national coach of the of the year. This week, he tells Fox News he was forced to resign as head coach of the girl’s soccer team for praying over an injured player on the opposing team. Apparently, he also violated district policy last year for watching two movies with the girls — “Soul Surfer” and “Forever Strong” — because they featured religious themes.
 

Hirschman said he was surprised that something as seemingly innocuous as praying with an injured player has come back to haunt him, referencing the incident earlier this season in which he says an opposing player affirmed his request to pray with her.
 
“Literally, she did not move an inch, she was laying out on her face,” he said of the injury. “It was pretty scary … Our girls pray before every single game, but it’s student-led. So I went ahead and asked if I could pray with the team and I ended up asking the athlete herself if I could pray with her and she said yes. Who knew it would come back to be a big deal?”

Well Tom, it didn’t used to be a big deal. But the times they are a changing.

I’ve been reading “A Noble Treason,” (which I highly recommend) a moving account of Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and the White Rose revolt against Hitler. It’s the story of a handful of college students who dared to speak out against the Nazi evil that had transformed their country. They were all Christians.
 
For the most part, during the late 1930’s, the churches in Germany were co-opted by the National Socialists. At that time, most churchgoers and many of the clergy were small “c” christians, their faith lukewarm at best. So, rather like the proponents of slavery in the 1800’s, and present-day liberal theologians, they found it no great leap to freelance the word of God and distort scripture to comport with the prevailing ideology.
 
The members of the White Rose, students at the University of Munich, were all capital “C” Christians. When Hitler first came to power, the Bavarian minister of culture had instructed their school’s professors;
 
“From now on, it will not be your job to determine whether something is true or not, but only whether it is in the spirit of the National Socialist Revolution.” ~ Hans Schemm
 
Sound familiar: rejection of objective truth and suppression of any but the approved worldview (currently secularism; reinforced by political correctness)?
 
History does repeat. Circumstances very, the cast of characters changes, but the eternal struggle between right and wrong, between good and evil, remains the same.
 

While we’re not seeing evidence of a movement toward nationalism in the U.S., as was the case with Nazi Germany, our government certainly seems to be making every effort to stamp out any allegiance to a Creator, to a Higher Power than the state. Praying over a soccer player, as Coach Hirschman discovered, has become a big deal, because it’s not in the spirit of the secular progressive movement.
 
Anyone who doesn’t see some eerie similarities between pre-war Germany and the America of today, either doesn’t know their (non-revisionist) history, or isn’t looking.

 
Related:
The Left’s War on Christianity ~ by John Hawkins at RightWingNews
Lawmakers urged not to join Prayer Caucus