Always. They were created precisely to destroy the Protestant Reformation which was calling out the Papacy as the Anti-Christ. They are and have always been the Catholic church's most diabolical military and intel agency
Well, that document is 300 years after the order was founded, so it doesn't prove origin, which is what I was asking about. But as I haven't researched it extensively, I won't dispute the point. I had thought that it was founded sincerely but later corrupted, within the first 100 years, but today's facts speak for themselves either way. Thanks.
I will try to find documents proving that they were founded explicitly to counter the Reformation, but without access to the gilded Vatican Library, I doubt I'll have much success. However, their founding date is dasting when considering.
edit- I found this exerpt but will need to find the citations
The Order was suspected to survive underground and to combat Protestantism and the Enlightenment through "eine Menge geheimer schädliche[r] Gesellschaften". The ensuing discussion soon encompassed the fate of the Order of the Illuminati which had been founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830) . He was a professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt who took his inspiration from both the Jesuits and the Masons . His "geheime Gesellschaft", as Weishaupt labelled it, sought to win members among the elite and to conquer good positions in order to influence government.
Do you believe the Jesuits were always corrupt? Or was St Ignacius's organization infiltrated and co-opted after it had begun?
Always. They were created precisely to destroy the Protestant Reformation which was calling out the Papacy as the Anti-Christ. They are and have always been the Catholic church's most diabolical military and intel agency
Read this list of things they believed (in furtherance with their overarching mission!) which the pope had no choice but to denounce! https://archive.org/details/doctrineofjesuit00bert/page/486/mode/1up?view=theater
"The ends justify the means" is a classic intel agency trope. The Jesuits are the seed of the CIA et. al. and essentially run them all.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jesuits
Well, that document is 300 years after the order was founded, so it doesn't prove origin, which is what I was asking about. But as I haven't researched it extensively, I won't dispute the point. I had thought that it was founded sincerely but later corrupted, within the first 100 years, but today's facts speak for themselves either way. Thanks.
I will try to find documents proving that they were founded explicitly to counter the Reformation, but without access to the gilded Vatican Library, I doubt I'll have much success. However, their founding date is dasting when considering.
edit- I found this exerpt but will need to find the citations