Are Left handers servants of the devil?
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In the final analysis it's not the goats sitting at the left hand at the marriage supper of the lamb. If anything it's that lady who was chases off into the desert.
Traditionally though, in Cathoiic Churches, Mary is in the right hand side of the altar and her most chaste spouse is to the left.
Also when genuflecting, one goes down on the right knee and makes the sign of the cross with the right hand. When one knelt before a human sovereign, they would go down on the left knee. And only make the sign of the cross if they were about to get their head chopped off.
All this is to put your mind at ease, as a lefty myself, I know I'm a tad less dexterous than my right handed peers (and children) but I make do. Theologically however, the left hand side just isn't as cool as the right hand side l. Sometimes infinitely less cool, but that's no reason to declare a fatwa against us lefties.
I belive the word you're looking for is gauche.
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Traditionally, and not just in the Church, the right hand was considered more "noble" than the left, probably just because there are a lot more right-handed than left-handed people. As a result, the Church's traditional rubrics specify that some ceremonial actions be performed with the right hand, even if the person performing them is left-handed. For example, I believe priests are supposed to distribute communion with the right hand. This also applies to some actions that are not strictly governed by rubrics; for example, even though I'm left-handed, I make the sign of the cross with my right hand.
Until fairly recently, this sort of preference for the right hand was much more visible in secular society too. For example, my father, who was (like me and two of my four siblings) left-handed, was forced, as a child, to learn to write with his right hand. The preference also shows up in the English language, not only in phrases like the ones you mentioned in the question, but also in single words like "dexterous", "ambidextrous", and "sinister".
Finally, to answer the original question: No, I'm not a servant of the devil.
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