The teachers not wrong, sinister describes the left side, perhaps she’s just really in to heraldry.
The evil remark is way out, though.
Really? “The Devil”?
Can we just turn on the lights in this haunted house attraction and point out the guy in the red rubber mask holding a pitchfork is just a badly written and poorly conceived fictional character that exists for the sole purpose of convincing people that you need to go to a special house every week to put a dollah in the box or else you don’t love Jesus?
Heh, touché.
My posts in this thread haven’t been anti-Islam. If I wanted to make an anti-Islam post, I would simply have argued for the plausibility of an ultra-conservative reading of Islamic texts. My posts in this thread have been aimed at people who insist, regardless of what the perpetrators themselves actually say, that Islam has nothing to do with the atrocities committed in its name.
And people who genuinely do believe that all Muslims are bad people because of the actions of a minority are, obviously, idiots. However, all too often on these boards criticism of Islam as a religion is disingenuously equated with criticism of all Muslims everywhere.
You might say that Islam is very open to interpretation, and you’d be right. But ultra-conservative interpretations of Islamic scripture are plausible, given what the texts actually say. At the same time, there are other religions, like Jainism for instance, which simply do not allow for the kind of violence we see regularly from Jihadists.
But, if this teacher is to be believed (and I see no reason not to take her at her word) her stupid beliefs directly come from the Bible. If you read the Bible there’s plenty of scriptural backing for the idea that the right hand ought to be privileged over the left. For example:
"“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: And he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, ‘Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’ … Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.’” - Matthew 25:31-34.
“A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.” - Ecclesiastes 10:2
“The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. The right hand is exalted.” - Psalm 118.
It’s common sense to me that this woman wouldn’t have such a ridiculous and irrational bias against left-handed people if it weren’t for verses like these, so how can it not matter what her holy book says. She got the belief directly from the book. To this extent, Christianity is culpable, although that obviously doesn’t extend to all Christians.
There are numerous critics of Islam on these boards. Some, certainly, condemn all Muslims for the sins of a few. Others, like myself, however, believe that it is perfectly possible to criticise bad ideas in a religion’s holy books without criticising all of the people who follow that religion. Unfortunately, there are lots of people who simply flat-out refuse to believe this distinction can exist. Those are the people my previous posts were aimed at.
It’s all that lefty Obama’s fault!
May I offer a sincere, if belated, welcome to the SDMB, and pose a question?
How did you fly under my idiot-dar for a full month?
Another whoosh?
Wow, maybe I am bad at sarcasm 
Poe’s Law is a harsh taskmaster.
P(oe)wned! 
[sub](I’ll see myself out)[/sub]
You focus on the holy book. That’s wrong. Stupid vicious people are going to have stupid vicious beliefs, and the only thing stupid vicious people seem to be good at is finding justification for their stupid vicious beliefs. The Bible is no more responsible for her idiocy than the Beatles are for Manson’s.
Meanwhile, a perfectly good RO thread about an idiot teacher was lost in the aether…
I started Catholic school at the same time. I was made to switch to my right hand, and I write with that hand to this day. I do a lot of other things left-handed, and can actually write pretty well with my left hand.
Same thing happened to my father. That would have been in the late '30s.
There was nothing religious about it, though – the nuns were just way too heavily into uniformity.
This is only the third thread the OP has opened and all three consist only of a title and a link. That’s pathetic.
Way to go all you fuckers who let a RO link-and-no-content thread go to 2 pages instead of die a quick death!
Growing up with two left-handed brothers I can’t help but think that this teacher may have a point. 
By the time I try to post anything else on my first comment my time is up !
I don’t know how to post the link and story together .
Once you post, you have five minutes to edit it. You could either include the comment in the original post, before you submit it, or you could submit a second post with some sort of comment. You appear to doing neither. (And if anyone else thinks I’m being overly harsh on this poster, please see his/her replies last time when he/she was criticized for the same thing, including by a moderator.)
Well, it seem to me I recall a Pew Research Center survey on Christians and their support for The Levitican Code, and even though 86% of Belgians that support Leviticanism would support stoning to death a left-hander, when you actually consider the size of this sub-population…