Overland Park ? Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, tossed off the bench after he refused to removed a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, maintained Wednesday he had no regrets.

“We are so blinded to the fact that the acknowledgment of God is not prohibited by the Constitution,” Moore said during a service at a church in suburban Kansas City.

“We need to wake up to what this country is about and quit thinking that God dwells in temples made of hands,” Moore said. “We think we can contain him within four walls of a church. I think this is an egregious error.”

The state judicial ethics panel acted last week to remove Moore from the bench after he repeatedly refused to obey a federal judge’s order to move a 2 1/2-ton block of granite from the courthouse rotunda.

Moore said Wednesday he was considering whether to appeal the review panel’s decision. In the interim, Moore said, he plans to travel and speak about his removal from the bench, which has made him a hero to fellow conservative Christians.