What is Gossip?
A Quarrel Between Ancients and Moderns
The major monotheistic religions all proscribe gossip.
Jewish texts liken it to murder (killing someone’s reputation), Islamic texts liken it to “eating the flesh of one’s dead brother” (a metaphor that implies both desecration and cannibalism), and Christian texts link it to sexual immorality.
Yet, gossip does not typically register as a vice at all to…
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