Would you send your child to a Christian re-conditioning camp to cure their left-handedness? Why or why not?

Question

What would you think if, after the treatment at camp, your child no longer used their left hand, but their writing and coordination with their right hand remained really poor?

Would that be a success in the eyes of God?

Many answerers to my earlier question reported nuns and others forcing left-handed children to use their right hand. See this link:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqxUL0BavJ1veiW1AR8FEabsy6IX?qid=20070226160946AAnq8JU

Answer 1

Why should my child have to change being left-handed? I am left handed. When I was a child, I attended a parochial school where the nuns would hit you for writing with your left hand. I never changed the way that I wrote though. God made me left handed.God wants us to be the best person that we can be. He does not want us beaten into submission and then doing poorly after submission. He wants us to stand firm with what is right. Being left-handed is not a crime or a sin; it is a form of development.

Answer 2

There have been many things done by people to "help" others that only caused harm. And many of those things were done by people were said to be people of God. Ignorance is ignorance and that is what they acted out of, the mistaken belief that people who are left-handed had in some way developed incorrectly or would be somehow victimized because they were left-handed.

The fact that someone is wearing a habit or cleric's collar doesn't make what they do, think or believe any less subject to the whims and misconceptions of the time period that they live in.

And no, I would never allow my child (if I had one) to be "conditioned" to use their right hand. Or conditioned to do or not do anything else for that matter barring some very serious behavioral problems.

Answer 3

>>Would you send your child to a Christian re-conditioning camp to cure their left-handedness? Why or why not?<<

It can't be cured, only controlled. I would only send my child if he WANTED to go to learn techniques for resisting urges and controlling his behavior. Unless the child is motivated, it would be pointless.

>>What would you think if, after the treatment at camp, your child no longer used their left hand, but their writing and coordination with their right hand remained really poor? Would that be a success in the eyes of God?<<

God gave us reason and free will. Being able to control our behavior is a sign of maturity. If my child is now able to control his behavior, yes, I think that would be a success in the eyes of God.

Answer 4

What church are you going to? Do you really believe that it is somehow not by God's design if your child turns out left-handed? That is completely ludicrous.

The notion that left-handedness is evil or somehow of the Devil came out of the ignorance of the dark ages and that's where it should be left.

Sending your kid to Christian re-conditioning camp for ANY reason sounds like abuse to me. Try good old fashioned love and good parenting, and don't make problems out of your child's uniqueness. Unless you're an @sshole.

Answer 5

If my child were left-handed than that is how the child will remain. God has nothing to do with these kinds of strange notions about who is right or left handed. That is poppycock! Because people are daffy don't blame God.

Answer 6

Nope. That would be a stupid as trying to change someone's sexual orientation.

If people could truly choose to be gay or not, why would anyone chose to? It would be like "Choosing" to be Black - in Mississippi, in 1932.

If I "choose" to be gay:

I can't hold hands with the one I love in public for fear of being stoned.

I can't marry.

I can't serve (openly) in the Armed Services.

There's a real good chance all or part of my family will shun me.

Co-Workers and team-mates will back away in disgust if I pat them on the back; if I pat them on the butt like the NFL guys do, they will deck me;

Getting an apartment and a job will be tougher;

Some of my co-workers, neighbors and acquaintances will assume I'm a child molester.

Great choice, huh?

Answer 7

Yes. God hates lefties. I'm sure there's a verse in Leviticus to support that.
Everyone knows that God would NEVER create a child to be left-handed. It is OBVIOUSLY a choice.
But take heart. If you have your child pray to God (on his knees, all night long, in the dark basement if necessary) God will heal your child of this twisted way of writing. If your child persists, you should call the elders of the church together to cast demons out. For only a devil-inhabited child would willingly choose to be left-handed.
If these options don't work, then by all means, send your child to Right Hand Camp. They have all number of Godly methods of changing your child's sickness, from shock aversion therapy to peer pressure.

In the meantime, work to pass laws to make sure that everyone is right-handed. Left-handed scissors must be made illegal. Anyone caught writing or eating with his/her left hand should be stoned to death.

Answer 8

God made the child left handed, who are we to change it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that being left handed is a sin!!

Answer 9

Why would you like your child to be right handed? Left-handed children are just as rare as twins.

Answer 10

Left handedness has nothing to do with Christianity and should be treated as that persons natural preference.