My story... confused atheist... to broken believer

 The other thing about gossip....  …and other related things like judging, malice, slandering, tearing someone down, hating someone, treating them poorly, stigmatizing someone, treating them like their worthless, etc...  ...is that the people who do these things to other people are, whether they are aware of it or not, basically trying to define who that person is without knowing them. They have not see the whole history of their life, inner nor outer. And the person being negatively effected by these negative things has to wrestle with two views of themselves, one a possibly conflicting view from an outside person who does not fully know them, and two the view of themselves from themselves or from their family or friends or God, etc. And what is spectacularly fabulous about God... yes … you guessed it... is the He already knows who we are, what we've done, and every thought we've had a long the way!  The good, bad and the ugly.  He does not deny the bad we have...

I wanted to write about Gossip.   Now this applies to Christian's only.  Those who believe the literal Gospel, resurrections of Jesus, literal truth of the OT and NT, not some nice story or myth.  But that Jesus is the Son of God, God the Son. If you are not a believer, this does not apply to you, and you need to open up to God's love and receive the Gospel, before this would be of help. If someone gossips about you, slanders you, talks negatively behind your back, treats you negatively, thinks you're worthless or treats you like you're worthless, it really hurts.  Especially if it happens by people who are close to you.  I think some of the biggest and longest lasting psychological wounds come from this. But I wanted to say one thing about this:  don't try to prove yourself to such a person.   Don't try to change and better yourself so you can someday say "see, you're wrong".  You may someday prove they are wrong, but don't go about it ...

Now Trump sure "tore down" Ben Carson during the Republican nomination debates.  The liberals also really made fun of Carson as well.  Even though Caron is a highly intelligent and skilled M.D. neurosurgeon, having accomplished many amazing/impossible brain surgeries. Trump on the other hand has paid off women who he slept with outside of marriage, and has been recorded saying very misogynistic and bad things.  He's a corrupt businessman according to what I have read he has done to his business contacts.  His tweets as president stirred up a lot of hate and division in this country.  I don't know if it will ever recover actually.   He did support conservative policies, supreme court picks, religious freedom and boosting the economy with America First type of agenda which is generally all good.   Compared to a green liberal agenda, I also like a conservative balance of using petroleum tech for the time being while we invest in and transition t...