The unintended consequences of stupid humans are evil.  Normal humans are destructive automatons.  Consequently, the Progressive Intellectual is justified in making their decisions for them.

This is the Progressive Doctrine of Justification by Education Alone.

The command (transcendental norm, Judeo-Christian, for superstitious normal folk) “be holy, loving and responsible” transforms into “be enlightened” for the intellectual power broker and “conform” for the normal bloke.

For the existential possibility that is situated by decisions, formerly “the project of self-transcendence”, a variety of projects have been entertained, the most mind-boggling being “the project of social justice”.

The “project of social justice” embraces those with a desire to control others but cannot supersize their intellects.  This is where the Progressive saints come in.

The Progressive camp also contains the supermoral (example, the ones who insist on “fairness” and “justice”, such as Nobel-Prize winner Jimmy Carter), the superreligious (example, the ones who deceive in order to further the cause, such as Nobel-Prize winner Paul Krugman), plus innumerable wannabes as well as cynical players who benefit from the implementation of Progressive (sovereign) programs.

In this fashion, Lonergan’s methodological theology may by applied to the symbolic order now (2012) constituting itself as a social construction outside the symbolic orders of the Founding Documents (& the free market) and of Christianity.

In this wide-ranging applicability, Lonergan’s methodological theology is truly modern, that is, scientific.