Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by mhurron on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:27PM
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The left side being evil and related to the Devil is pretty embedded in Christianity.
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Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by brobinson on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @02:54PM
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Goes all the way back to Latin, too! Left = sinister, right = dexterous
Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by cwbrandsma on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:55PM
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I can't help but calling bull-shit on this. There could be a few fringe groups, but it absolutely does not exist in general christian theology. (Ehud was left-handed and considered a hero in the Bible)
Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by sp332 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:31PM
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Anything in America in the last 200 years or so?
Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by mhurron on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:12PM
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Ya you're right as soon as they left Europe, they stopped doing all the stupid stuff and became enlightened.
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/lspeak2.html#educators http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=49703
Re:The geography of American left-handedness
by sp332 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:44PM
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Thanks for the link, that's cool. Looks like 3 Catholics and an ambiguous reference to Satan, and your second link is to a cult. I guess the cult might count as fundamentalist something.