The American Inquisition
Has Begun
By Chuck Baldwin,
I was in attendance at Alabama Chief Justice Roy
Moore's trial in
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"There was never a doubt that the "judges"
had made up their minds to remove Chief Justice Moore from the bench before
the proceedings ever began. They sat like wooden Indians throughout the
trial, taking few notes and, with only one exception, making no comments,
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Pryor: Mr. Chief Justice? And your understanding is that the Federal court ordered that you could not acknowledge God; isn't that right?
Pryor: And if you resume your duties as Chief Justice after this proceeding, you will continue to acknowledge God as you have testified that you would today --
Pryor: -- no matter what any other official says?
Pryor: The only point I am trying to clarify, Mr. Chief Justice, is not why, but only that, in fact, if you do resume your duties as Chief Justice, you will continue to do that [acknowledge God] without regard to what any other official says; isn't that right?
Does any reader of this exchange not see what Bill
Pryor was demanding? He was demanding that Chief Justice Roy Moore not acknowledge
God! Pryor did not even refer to the Ten Commandments. He repeatedly asked
Watching Bill Pryor examine Roy Moore in such a
fashion reminded me of the movie "Luther." It was shockingly similar
to the moment when the great reformer stood in front of the Roman council
and heard the inquisitor shout, "Will you recant? Will you recant? Will
you recant?"
It is more than interesting that Bill Pryor asked
Chief Justice Moore three times whether he would continue to acknowledge God,
because Satan asked the Lord Jesus three times to fall down and worship him,
and Simon Peter denied Christ three times. There does seem to be a pattern!
The point that all Americans must understand is
that Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench, not for committing
any crime, not for participating in unethical conduct, and not even for posting
the Ten Commandments in the
Americans must understand that people such as Judge
Myron Thompson and Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor actually believe that
the public acknowledgement of God is illegal activity. Even more dangerous,
they believe that a federal judge's order, not the U.S. Constitution, is the
supreme law of the land. Pryor said as much during the trial.
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is yet another similarity of Roy Moore's trial to a Dark Ages-style inquisition.
Not only was he commanded to recant his public acknowledgment of God,
the trial itself was conducted out of public view. No television cameras
or recording devices were allowed. Obviously, the inquisitors did not
want the American people to see and hear for themselves what took place
inside the However, reminiscent of Dark Ages-style punishment, while the trial took place in obscurity, TV cameras were allowed in the courtroom the next day when the verdict to remove |
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The American reformation should begin with the
voters of
Let the reformation begin!
Publisher’s Note…
The above
article was reprinted by permission from Chuck Baldwin’s