Hale realizes the evil nature the court has taken. Originally, Hale thought it would expel Satan from Salem, but he comes to realize that something far worse is there: lies and vengeance. Once he realizes that the girls are lying and that there never was any real evidence of witch craft, he removes himself from the court. He tests Proctor and Elizabeth because at that time he was still an agent of the court. It was his job to make sure they were good and upstanding Puritans and that the charges against Elizabeth were unfounded. Proctor refuses to go to church mainly because of his dislike for Rev Parris. Proctor believes Parris is a greedy person. Note how Proctor tells Hale how Parris kept asking the congregation for golden candle sticks. Also Parris focuses very little of his sermons, again according to Proctor, on God, focusing instead of hell and damnation.
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