I Never Met A Jesuit Before I

I Never Met A Jesuit Before I Applied For The Order.

One Is Called To Live Nonviolently, Even If The Change One Works For Seems Impossible.

I'd Like To Die With My Boots On.

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top. Still It Should Be Said Of The Political Left, We Expect Something Better. And Correctly. We Put More Trust In Those Who Show A Measure Of Compassion, Who Denounce The Hideous Social Arrangements That Make War Inevitable And Human Desire Omnipresent; Which Fosters Corporate Selfishness, Panders To Appetites And Disorder, Waste The Earth.

Spirituality Was The Main Issue. Connection With God Was The Main Issue.