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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Broader appeal? I was always under the impression that it was religious sensitivities behind the name change.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Are there many religious sects which take issue with philosophy, but are fine with sorcery? I would have thought the name change would have caused more problems in that aspect.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No clue.

My theory doesn’t hold up to a web search, but honestly at the time the book was exploding here in Canada it was commonly talked about as the pagan or similar word offending primarily in the US.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

"The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance." Alchemy (the fake science or the philosophical research) can be easily seen as witchcraft.

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