But gossiping was not a sin with a scale. There was no allowable amount of it. Gossip, the way I was taught, was unequivocally, absolutely an affront against God, closer to murder or adultery than dancing. It said so right there in the Bible. And because I believed in those words and that culture and that God, I agreed. Gossiping was wrong, I repeated to myself over and over and over again, never really believing it.
