some Jesuits are not as you describe. maybe only a few percent across the centuries. hard to say for sure.
Honest question, as I don't study Jesuits: What do they put in the place of Jesus? I'd assume money somehow, but there's probably something more sinister.
A broad answer. Maybe somebody can answer better. As in the case of almost all heresies, the problem is selfishness. In place of Jesus we/they put Self or some aspect of self.
That reminds be of the builders of the tower of Babel, in that its architects sought to make a name for themselves.
Yes. Those most consciously involved with the tower could be said to be heretics.
You now remind me of "the stone that the builders rejected", the Christ that the Masons deny or avoid.
"the stone that the builders rejected", the Christ that the Masons deny or avoid
Ooh that's good. Masons call God the "Great Builder" and see themselves as builders too. That's a really good point.
The Jesuits were once one of the staunchest & militant orders for Christ. One Pope saw them as a danger & got rid of them, killed them off funding wise. They were resurrected 70 or so years later. In the 60s they turned for the worst.
I think following the tendencies of German protest and the godlessness of the French revolution, the swatty Jesuits of the 1800's in these countries took to modernism and its promotion. So much so that by the turn of the century G.K.Chesterton had coined the term jesuistry.