What is gossip?

A friend who passes on the secrets of other friends, but asks you not to tell is an example of a gossip or gossiper

To hold conversations which slanders, accuses, find faults, and assasinates the character of the person who is spoken about.

Social media information that spreads hate speech, and negative images that degrades the exposed victims.

Jokes that are harmful:

To make people laugh while one is insulting, showing off images which puts down another,

using gestures of discrimination, prejudice, racism, and antisemitism in a form of jokes or comedy.

The negative gestures of gossip are always expressed via the speech of people who have failed to forgive,

and those who are out to seek for revenge (mob justice) against the one’s they disagree with.

The negative traits of jealousy, envy, suspicion, fear, and the desire to compete against another,

which are expressed as spoken words or conversations against a person’s life.

Gossip is defined as the private information about others shared in conversation or print.

Articles about the lives of movie stars in magazines are an example of gossip.

The state of holding distructive discussions about one’s life, which is the opposite of constructive discussions.

On a psychological level:

When a person engages into the act of gossiping, the one who is listening, the one who started the conversation and the one who contributes to the discussion,

are all quilty of slandering and puting stumbling blocks against someone’s progress in life.

Matthew 12:7:

But if you had known what this means,

‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Luke 6:37:

[Do not judge] “Judge not, and you shall not be judged.

Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned.

Forgive, and you will be forgiven

James 5:9:

Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!