{"id":802121,"date":"2021-09-24T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802121"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:10:30","slug":"satans-power-was-defeated-when-high-school-football-team-defied-order-and-prayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/satans-power-was-defeated-when-high-school-football-team-defied-order-and-prayed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Satan\u2019s power was defeated,\u2019 when high school football team defied order and prayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsatans-power-was-defeated-when-high-school-football-team-defied-order-and-prayed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As has happened in numerous localities across the nation, teachers and coaches in a Tennessee school district were recently told that they could no longer lead students in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Reported by WZTV-TV, the edict followed a complaint from an atheist group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which immediately got its way and barred religious expression by people who want it to be part of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>What was harmful to the Atheists? Were they barred from doing anything? No. The important part was to silence people in the Putnam County School District who wanted to pray in public, where their children attend school and play sports.<\/p>\n<p>But then something remarkable happened.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and students and players chose to come out onto the field after a football game and pray on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do realize this is a public school, but it has always been optional for players to pray, and has been a voluntary event. Players that still want to pray will have to do it on their own,\u201d wrote parent Dustin Whitefield to WZTV.<\/p>\n<p>After a Sept. 17 football game between Upperman and Stone Memorial, dozens of parents, students and fans gathered on the field and surrounded a large group of players representing both teams. According to WZTV, it was the players themselves who stepped up to lead the parents and fans in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>News of the defiance spread quickly after photos were circulated on social media, and people responded with support and admiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSatan\u2019s power was defeated tonight,\u201d one Putnam County Schools alum wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the threat of a legal action to forbid prayer after the game was overwhelmed by player lead prayer supported by parents and fans in solidarity on Overall Field. God bless the Baxter and Stone players for their faith and courage,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has happened in numerous localities across the nation, teachers and coaches in a Tennessee school district were recently told that they could no longer lead students in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}