Obscurantism

In our fight against the virus of obscurantism, it would have helped greatly to keep civilising places such as museums, arthouse cinemas, bookshops and libraries open.

This is not a time for this kind of obscurantism.

In the meanwhile, the tentacles of bigotry and obscurantism would keep digging in deeper and, with time, we may become that much more obdurate in our refusal to change our perspective, and that much more intolerant to accept diversity in our midst.

Marcien Towa, another founding father of our university, responded in almost the same words, insisting on the mastery of science and technology in this struggle against underdevelopment and obscurantism.

Mander has not questioned this fundamental right, nor has he commended the Muslim leadership and yet Guha expounds on a falsehood to buttress his theme song of Muslim obscurantism, even giving selective quotes of Muslim “liberals”.

The madman had his occasional flights of fancy, he had an intuitive feeling for certain things, despite his wild obscurantism.

The obscurantism of the Church, the inertia of the pontifical government, the ridiculous superstitions of Italian piety, the idleness and the dirtiness of the Southerners were commonplaces stereotypes from the accounts of travelers to Italy.