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[prunesquallor]

Very pleased North Carolina's finally confirmed to have flipped blue in the Presidential election. It would have been very humiliating to have our northern mountain of conceit show up this vale of humility! Combined with the Democratic victory in Indiana, there's now an aesthetically pleasing contiguous sea of blue in the Northeast which only ends on South Carolina's northern border.

I was also interested to learn that Obama may have also won Nebraska's second Congressional district. It's obviously of no actual importance, but it would be cool to finally have that odd proviso of Nebraskan electoral law kick in. Plus it would get Obama's EV total up to exactly 365, the number of years Enoch walked with God before he was taken up. I'm sure the Christian Right could use that little factoid to help them somehow discover that Obama is the Antichrist. And if the extra EV doesn't pan out, no worries: they'll find some other way of discovering it. . .

Oh wait, actually they already have. Never mind.

(Incidentally, this will be my last post on the election, which means I finally get to retire this icon, thank God.)

Comments

[interrociter.livejournal.com]

I am surprised to learn that the word "antichrist" is actually in the KJB. I thought it was a relatively recent coinage, perhaps from the 18th or 19th century. Do you know if anyone's every really researched it? Is it a accurate translation from the Biblical source languages?

[treddytrafalgar.livejournal.com]

Nope, antichrist is in the KJV - 1 and 2 John (though I noticed when I just checked that it's not capitalized, and that they mention little antichrists as well as the big guy - I suppose that's analogous to referring to the devil and devils, i.e. his demon henchmen). You may have been thinking about him not being mentioned in Revelation, where he's instead called things like the old dragon, the Devil or The Beast (didn't check to see if that was capitalized there).

[treddytrafalgar.livejournal.com]

I know you don't like wikipedia, but here's what Britannica has to say:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/27850/Antichrist

The word is Greek of course, and means Opposed to Christ (the Annointed One).

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

I'm glad NC finally went for a Democratic president, too. It's one of our great paradoxes--Dems at the state level but not national.

[treddytrafalgar.livejournal.com]

I guess all those transplanted yankees were finally good for something.

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that was supposed to be a reply to your overall post, not just a reply to interrociter.