Lefthandedness
April adorsey@NETUSA1.NET
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:48:23 -0600 (00871847303, 199708171210.IAA27321@gatem02.netusa1.net)
> TILL
> When science proves--as I believe it
> > one day will--that homosexuality is not a conscious choice that one
> makes,
> > biblicists will then have the task of explaining why God would condemn
> > people for something that results from the way he "created" them.
> >
> APRIL
> I know the Catholic church used to consider left-handiness as a sign of
the
> devil (sinister meaning left, and evil) - (BTW, is there any biblical
> support for that?) until it was shown to be a genetic trait. After that,
> they allowed left-handed kids to stay left handed. I don't remember
> hearing a public apology for all those bruised left hands they caused!
>
> TILL
> Actually, in some places the Bible indicates that lefthandedness is sort
of
> a virtue or a special attribute. Ehud, one of the early judges of
Israel,
> was "a lefthanded man" (Judges 3:15), and he distinguished himself by
> killing Eglon, the king of Moab, while he was taking a crap (vs:16-25).
> During the tribal war between Benjamin and the the other Israelite
tribes,
> the Benajamite army had 700 lefthanded men, who could "sling a stone at a
> hair's breadth and not miss" (Judges 20:16).
>
>
>
> Farrell Till
I wonder where the catholic church got that notion, then?
April