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Quote from: InfiniteFaith

Yes, I had my own interpretation of what I thought detraction was before I created this thread. I brought it up to see what other people's interpretations were in hopes that they would confirm my own. Plus someone posted the things I said on this website on another website. I thought it was detraction.

In that case, you seem to be getting very close to do the very thing you are complaining about:  posting about someone else's Internet posts.

Quote from: InfiniteFaith

I am well aware that some of the things I have said on this website have been offensive to some. Yet at the same time, I can't think of an instance off hand where I thought that I said something that was untruthful or sinful. Maybe a bit aggressive at times, and lacking charity, but thats about it.

If you believe that what you have said in the past was not sinful, then that only increase my belief that what you described is not detraction.  Detraction must reveal the past sins of someone.  If you do not believe that your old posts are sinful, then someone is simply referring to an old thought of yours, not an old sin, and thus no detraction.

Quote from: InfiniteFaith

I'm wondering if people who visit this website would spread the things that I have said  here to the congregation that I attend. Do you think that would be detraction?

If what you have said here was not sinful, then no, it would not be detraction in my opinion, because no past sin of your was revealed.

Ok. I see your point to an extent. But what if you believed that what I had said is wrong, and you went and told people in my congregation about it who were unaware beforehand. Would that be detraction?

InfiniteFaith,

I must question why you seem to be so desperate to know whether someone else committed detraction.  It would be one thing if you were trying to determine what detraction is so that you do not commit it, but in this case, it would seem to me to be a matter for this other person and his confessor, not you.  I really see no benefit to you knowing whether or not another person has committed a sin.

Are you still in contact with this person?  If you are, and you determine that he has committed detraction, what are you going to do?  Rub it is his face that he has sinned?  If you are no longer in contact, what are you going to do?  Be happy in the knowledge that someone else has committed a sin?  Both are uncharitable.