I’m not sure it fits exactly, but I just read a quote from a missionary killed in Africa as he exercised his speech to spread the Christian gospel: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Elliot
The quote is from Jim Elliot, who died in Ecuador 59 years ago today, Jan. 8, 1956, trying to evangelize the native Indians.
He planted a seed which bore much fruit.
His wife was Elisabeth Elliot, a famous Christian writer, who wrote the best seller “Through Gates of Splendor”.
This Charlie Hebdo was the intellectual and moral equivalent of passing intestinal gas in elevators and giggling.
If anyone had reason to realize that Hebdo was not being personal towards them, it would be the imams. If they wanted to see Christians or Jews etc. getting raspberries for their faith, they would find it in the same magazine. Hebdo was an equal opportunity blasphemer. They would have found it very easy to pull together a pan-faith statement condemning what Hebdo is doing, if they had wanted to.
But reason isn’t ruling the day, hate is.
I think it fits, but I couldn’t tell you how...