It makes sense that religions, which are primarily concerned with morality and holiness, would condemn things like slander and libel. To slander someone is to lie about them, and lying is unholy. To slander someone is also to cause them harm, and causing harm is unholy. Belief systems, in their least corrupt, most pure state, are mostly about trying to make the world we live in a better place by being kind to the people around you. I wanted that, too. I still do. But I also wanted to gossip, and the kind of gossip I wanted to do wasn’t slanderous. If every word uttered about a third party was
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