“It is not only by shedding the blood of a person, by depriving him or her of this bodily life that we become murderers. How often people have been betrayed and murdered at the heart of their being by this betrayal. How often slander has destroyed not only a person’s reputation but his whole life? How often gossip, malicious or mindless, has wounded a person and destroyed relationships around him…Oh, we do not think of killing, but how much we hope that something would remove that person from our life, from our neighborhood, that I could forget this person and that he should no longer exist for me. This is the way of Cain.”
(Anthony of Sourozh, 21st Century British Metropolitan, on the Lord’s Prayer exp.)