Prop (Animation): Scale or coins (three types) and blackboard with the words: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin; clay pot

Judging. It’s something we do almost without thinking.

Judging. And justifying. And we’re so GOOD at it!

We love to sit on our holy thrones (or in the case of football, cause it’s the season now –lounge in our armchairs) and cast judgments upon those people who are on tv, in the spotlight, on trial, or in any way aren’t in our circle of friends. Many of us judge our friends too!

All you have to do is turn on the television, and you hear it on the news: this candidate got a good jab at that candidate. She really dressed him down! He threw it in his face! In the media, you are well judged before you ever have a trial in the courts.

And in a year or so, all of us will go to…