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There is no need for any form of disguised obscurantism or vitalism.— ScreenTalk
In fact, the BJP's notion of India is hard to disassociate with early nationalist obscurantism promoted by its ideological founders.
Never mind its authoritarianism or obscurantism, it is its treatment of man as special - as more than a biological being; as capable of rapture; as having, in the words of Genesis, 'dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and every other living thing that moves on the Earth' - that really gets their goat.
As a sop to their bruised egos and perhaps as a check on the untrammeled power of their elite patrons, they retreated into obscurantism - often the last refuge of theological scoundrels.— orrologion
Realism - i.e., painting things as they appeared to the eye - was out and obscurantism was in.— Stop The ACLU

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