“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}
Back then, the Jesuits were good Catholics.
As far as John Adams, he was a both a racial and a religious bigot:
“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?”
If that’s from Adams, then Adams was more of a moron than I ever realized. The Jesuits were some of the greatest scholars and scientists as well as great Christians in Adams’ day. That’s just a fact.