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This custom suggests new stages in the old rebellion against religious strictures, which once demanded that female hair--divinely ordained to be long and seductive--be covered up lest it incite lust.
But over the last generation, high-achieving Asian-Americans have been anointed "honorary" whites, usually so ordained by conservatives wary of black militancy.
Darby put his eyes too close to the Scripture pages and decided that history, past and future, was a series of "dispensations": divinely ordained historical epochs in which the Chosen People had been and would be tested and found wanting by God, always leading to the next dispensation.
Jewish suffering, though, is divinely ordained.
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.