I have always thought that God must have had something to do with creating that word - backbite. "Backbite" means to bite behind the back. If you try to bite anybody in front, you have to face their angry eyes and two fists; but it is quite safe to bite from behind, and so we backbite the back.
I am sure that if the envious, the defamers, and the backbiters were taken out of the average church there would be a revival overnight. We backbite, defame, belittle, envy and then piously blame our trouble on the liberals and the modernists. No liberal or modernist troubles the average evangelical church. Both would die because the air is too rare and they could not take it. Bring a modernist into an evangelical church and turn him loose awhile and he would soon hunt for cover because the atmosphere just is not conductive to modernism. He could not live in it. The air is too rare.