Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
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Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.
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