Faust and the Spirit of "Positive Christianity"

February 7th, 2025 | 9 min read

“I'm cleverer, true, than those fops of teachers,
Doctors and Magisters, Scribes and Preachers;
Neither scruples nor doubts come now to smite me,
Nor Hell nor Devil can longer affright me.”
--Doctor Faust, Part I, Goethe’s Faust

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Joseph Laughon

Joseph S. Laughon is a political thought graduate of Concordia University, Irvine and a specialist in the logistics industry. He lives in Los Angeles, where he writes on culture, religion, politics and national security. His own writings can be found at Musings On The Right.

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