Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Does it matter if you make sign of the cross on your left hand?
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would say no who cares where you but a cross unless in the bible its a sin to be left handed then don't put a cross there.
LOL!
- JudeLv 51 decade ago
I don't think so...but i think the tradition of making the sign of the cross with your right hand came from when people thought the left sin of the body was the evil side....in latin the word for left is sinister.
this was also why children who were naturally left-handed were forced to learn to write with their right hand...right up until victorian times in Britain!
but no, i personally don't think it matters...and i don't think God would care either!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Strictly speaking, yes, It does matter. The left hand is on the supposed evilside of the body and should not be used.
Edit - Look it up. According to Catholic Doctrine, the left side is evil, bad, incorrect, as another answerer put "sinister" is the literal word for "left" in Latin. Lefthanders were considered to be in consort with the devil, many of them burned for being witches. Because of this, Catholic blessings are by convention given by the right hand not the left. As crossing oneself with the "sinister" hand would be a bad idea in anyone's book, it is conventionally done with the right. Not the left.
Matthew 25: 41; "Then he will also say to those on the left hand, "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels"
Source(s): Left hander and atheist. - ?Lv 44 years ago
whilst i grow to be a infant my German speaking grandma could get very disillusioned whilst i could use my left hand. My dad, if I picked up a ball with my left , could come over and take the ball out of my left hand and place it in my suitable. They easily knowledgeable a left surpassed person to be suitable surpassed. in the present day I onlty devour and write as a left surpassed person. interior the previous united states of america and in the time of Europe the left hand grow to be traditionally "the devil's hand" and the sign of the go has traditionally and "wisely" been carried out with the fantastic hand.
- 1 decade ago
Yes. It is only done with the right hand - if you do it with the other, its considered incorrect. I cant find anything website that says the significance of why the right hand has to be used though.