Tim Curry as the left-handed Devil himself in the film "Legend"

Tim Curry as the left-handed Devil himself in the film "Legend"

“I just asked ‘Is there anything his teachers ever asked about his hands?’ And he raises this one and says this one’s bad,” Sands said. Alisha sent the teacher a note and got a strong response. It was an article calling left-handedness “unlucky,” “evil,” and “sinister.” It even says “for example, the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.”

She went to the superintendent with the article. “There was no suspension of any kind. There was basically nothing done to this teacher,” Sands says, “She told them she thought I needed literature on it.”

When ardent atheists attack religion it's because they believe religion is superstition and, more importantly, that these superstitions have been and still are used to hurt and even murder people. The story coming out of Oklahoma falls directly into this category of criticism. A 4-year-old boy named Zayde goes to school at Oakes Elementary in Okemah, Oklahoma. He's left-handed. It's not surprising because his mom is left-handed. He's also learning to write in school, as young children do these days. His mom noticed he was using his right hand and not his left. That. Is. Crazy. Zayde's mother considers it the thinking of a person who might be crazy. The school clearly doesn't.The news called and ended up talking to the principal—they said they were investigating but as this story gets passed around, the heat gets turned up.

If these allegations are true this amounts to child abuse. There is no gray area here. The only time it's okay to call a child evil is if they begin levitating, their head spins around a full 360 degrees and fire shoots out of their eyes incinerating a basketful of puppies; but barring that, it's child abuse.