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Slander, Silence, and the Purification of the Heart in the Witness of the Desert Fathers Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Evergetinos Volume II Hypothesis XLVI B-D1 This section of the Evergetinos  exposes slander not as a minor moral failure or social misstep but as a profoundly spiritual violence. The Desert Fathers present it as a force that wounds the heart, fractures the mind, and distorts reality itself, not only for the one who is slandered but especially for the one