obscurantism

• 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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