By Father John Walsh on January 8, 2015
The world must stand up for freedom, freedom of expression; freedom, pure and simple! History has proven that the denial of freedom is the greatest obstacle to our development as human beings. The greatest freedom we have is to seek the truth. Truth will make you free. What is the truth about Je Suis Charlie?
Although we seek truth that is absolute and therefore self-evident, truth is not absolute, it is relative to the events and circumstances in which we seek the truth. It is not situational but must be situated in the time and space in which truth is sought after. In the case of Charlie Hebdo, people use their pens as satirists and draw cartoons lampooning people and events in depictions that may be considered extreme to wake people up who otherwise would be very content to live with the status quo.