Obscurantism synonyms

In these the tendency of the Syllabus towards obscurantism and papal despotism, and its incompatibility with modern thought, were clearly pointed out; and the evidence against papal infallibility, resting, as the Letters asserted, on the False Decretals, and accepted without controversy in an age of ignorance, was ably marshalled for the guidance of the council.

The first English scholars of the Renaissance, like Erasmus on the continent, did not see the logical outcome of their own discoveries, nor realize that the campaign against obscurantism would develop into a campaign against Roman orthodoxy.

A pity he did not see fit to nominate an appropriate secular, working class cause rather than one which promotes religious obscurantism.

Readers of this journal may have ceased to notice unnecessary political jargon, flights of academic obscurantism and lazy drafting.